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What is the percentage of land that is covered with rainforest in Indonesia 2012?-  Indonesia accounts for 16% of the worlds rain forests. Today 49% of Indonesia is covered in rain forests and that percentage will decrease in the years to come if we don't do something about deforestation.

What is the percentage of land that is covered with rainforest in Indonesia in 1911?- Back in 1911 84% of Indonesia was covered with rain forests. As you can see there has been a big loss of rain forests in Indonesia over the years, it is mainly due to deforestation for new plantations and the use of things like tree and palm oil.



Types of vegetation found in rainforest There are lots of different types of vegetation in Indonesia's rainforest. A 10-square-kilometre area of a rainforest can contain as many as 1,500 flowering plants and 750 species of trees. Some canopy trees grow over to over 100 metres high and Indonesia also contains the world largest flower rafflesia arnoldii The most important determinant on plant growth is rainfall and since there is a lot of rainfall in Indonesia there are its of lushes plants. = = = =



Indonesia's natural reserves:

Indonesia is home to hundreds of nature reserves. The ten biggest of these nature reserves are:

Bukit Duabelas Nature Reserve, which covers 28, 730 hectares and is located on the eastern coast of central Sumatra. Bung Hatta Forest reserve (A.K.A Taman Raya Bung Hatta), which has about 70,000 hectares in area and is situated in western Sumatra. This reserve is also home to the giant 'Rafflesia' plant. Kerumutan Nature Reserve, which has 120,000 hectares, and is located in central Sumatra. Rimbo Panti Nature Reserve, which is located in western Sumatra. Tangkoko Nature Reserve, which is in northern Sulawesi. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Kandawangan Nature Reserve, which is in western Kalimantan and is 150,000 square km. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Baning Nature Reserve, which is located in western Kalimantan. This Nature reserve houses several spectacular waterfalls. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Kersik Luwai Nature Reserve, which is located in Eastern Kalimantan, and is 5,000 hectares in area. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Krakatau Natural Reserve, that is located in the Krakatau islands, around the site of the destroy krakatau volcano. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Bukit Lawang Orangutans Nature Reserve, which is in northern Sumatra.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">All of these natural reserves are home to many, many kinds of unique plant life, animals and intricate ecosystems that are very important to the local area.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Causes of deforestation:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The major cause of deforestation in Indonesia is land-clearing. Much of Indonesia's forest and rainforest is removed via logging and burning off. The predominant reason for all of the land clearing is so that the cleared land can be used for farming and plantations, palm oil plantations in particular. Unfortunately, even though several football fields of rainforest are cleared per day, the farms used in the left over land are not managed efficiently, and even more rainforest is cleared (which creates an unfortunately destructive cycle), even though there is adequate land available for palm oil plantations.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The consequences of uncontrolled land-clearing:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Uncontrolled land-clearing very often leads to habitat destruction, which in turn causes a huge loss of life for local animals, especially orang-utans. Land-clearing also removes important plant life and ecosystems from the local environment, while also polluting the local area, and often rendering the land barren and devoid of nutrients, which also makes large scale farming and plantations unreliable and impractical.