Indonesia Makes Guinness Records For Fastest Rate Of Forest Destruction - 300 Acres/Hour

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Jakarta, Indonesia — The next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records will list Indonesia as the country with the fastest rate of forest destruction on the planet. Indonesia is destroying an area of forest equivalent to 300 football pitches every hour. It has already lost 72% of its large intact ancient forests (1) and half of what remains is threatened (2).

Guinness World Records, considered a global authority on record-breaking achievements, has confirmed to Greenpeace (3) that this unfortunate record will feature in its 2008 record book to be published in September this year. It will read: "Of the 44 countries which collectively account for 90% of the world's forests, the country which pursues the world's highest annual rate of deforestation is Indonesia with 1.8 million ha (4,447,896 acres) per year between 2000-2005 - a rate of 2 per cent annually or 51 square km (20 square miles) every day." (4)

"It is a national shame for Indonesia to own this distinction in the record books," said Hapsoro, Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner. "These record rates of destruction make Indonesia not only the fastest forest destroyer but also the world's number one greenhousegas polluter from deforestation." (5)

The record breaker was announced as the international community are considering reduced or avoided deforestation to mitigate climate change at the Third Working Group meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) taking place in Bangkok. Up to 25%

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http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/indonesia-makes-it-to-2008-gui

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1. That should speed up species eradication, way to go globalists