Anti-Deforestation Notes Other Country involvement and Consequences on other countries

Chart Deforestation in turn leads to The Haze Economic losses More house pollution Higher PSI levels

Consequences 1.Haze As you all know, the wide-spread haze appeared in 2010 in Southeast Asia and The haze is the main effect of burning of land. This haze in turn leads to many other consequences.

Economic losses WHY? 1. Clinic efficiency To reduce the effects of haze, countries like Singapore have to splurge money, mainly to build more efficient clinic services to cure their health problems. 2. Tourist income Some countries, especially Singapore, rely a lot on tourists to survive. With the haze, they will avoid coming, and thus we will lose a lot.

More house pollution WHY? 1.Increase of air purifiers With haze, the amount of air purifiers to purify the air in the house will soar. However, many of these purifiers release ozone, which in turn causes people to suffer similar diseases as to the haze. 2. Living more in the house Some furniture that are in the house release harmful chemicals, that causes the air in the house to be dirty as well. They too give off a pungent smell like those of a renovation of a house.

What are other countries doing? Singapore - Provided efficient satellite equipment and good photos, to view where the hot spots were. They managed to detect 146 hot spots. Malaysia - Provided fire-fighting equipment that Indonesia lacked funds to buy and able- bodied fire fighters to help put out the fire. *Please note these were only solutions to stop the fires but not deforestation.

What are other countries doing? Norway – Signed a letter of intent with Indonesia. In exchange for up to US$1 billion, Indonesia would place a two-year moratorium on new logging concession. This is expected to put curbs on Indonesia's palm oil industry and delay plans for the creation of a huge agricultural estate in Papua province, where the Papua Forest is home to orang utans. Also, to prevent illegal burning after this letter, Norway will set up a system in Indonesia to reduce corruption so that the deal can be enforced. With the money, Indonesia would have enough resources to combat deforestation. The money goes to making the farm land more productive and thus reduce the need for deforestation.

Rate of deforestation in Southeast Asia As you can see, Malaysia and Indonesia’s rates are the highest.

Worrying reasons A study broke down changes in forest cover by island. Borneo, which is shared by Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia, topped the list in terms of total area lost at 5 million hectares during the period, accounting for 12% of its 2000 cover. The most worrying sign is, forests declined at a faster rate in Sumatra, which lost 23.7% of its forest cover or 3.5 million hectares. If other countries cannot defend themselves, I cannot see them helping Indonesia.

References chart-forest-loss- seasia.html#ixzz239oX5CJNhttp://news.mongabay.com/2012/0715- chart-forest-loss- seasia.html#ixzz239oX5CJN Wikipedia – 2006 Southeast Asia Haze Deforestation in Indonesia