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Protected areas of Indonesia comprise both terrestrial and marine environments in any of the six IUCN Protected Area categories. There are over 500 protected areas in Indonesia, of which 54 National Parks cover 16.4 million ha, and another 527 nature and game reserves cover a further 28.3 million ha. [ 1 ]
In recognition of the region's vital importance, Greenpeace Southeast Asia was formally established in March 2000 with its head office in Bangkok, Thailand and branch offices in Manila, Philippines and Jakarta, Indonesia --- major cities in the region that are among the most polluted cities in the world today.
Wehea Forest is a 38,000 ha rainforest located in East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, Borneo.Wehea was declared a protected forest in 2004 by the Wehea Dayak. [1] This project received the Kalpataru Award in 2009, Indonesia's highest environmental honor. [2]
Around 9% of the Indonesia surface are national parks (less than the 25% of Germany or the 33% of France). The first group of five Indonesian national parks were established in 1980. [3] This number increased constantly reaching 41 in 2003. In a major expansion in 2004, nine more new national parks were created, raising the total number to 50. [4]
The Indonesian Forest Rangers (Indonesian: Polisi Kehutanan Indonesia, lit. 'Indonesian Forest Police', abbreviated "Polhut") is a park ranger civil service within the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. It serves on a national and regional level in the country.
The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history. In the middle of 1997 forest fires burning in Indonesia began to affect neighbouring countries, spreading thick clouds of smoke and haze to Malaysia ...
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...
The Hutan Pinus/Janthoi Nature Reserve is a restricted nature reserve located near the city of Kota Jantho in the north west tip of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It was established in 1984. It was established in 1984.