Why we’ve had enough of broken promises to protect forests
My home, Indonesia, has the world’s third-largest tropical forest with the most biodiversity on earth, but we are also one of the five largest carbon emitters in the world, mostly…
#Forests
Our forests are precious beyond imagination. We must protect them for the people living in them and people everywhere.
Forests regulate the climate and host an extraordinary array of plants and animals.
But to a greedy few, forests are just land, waiting to become pastures, plantations, or roads; sources of timber, rubber, or minerals.
Together we can be forest defenders and work towards their restoration for the benefit of all life on earth.
