Marty+&+India

For Sumatra find out:

 * ====What natural resources can be found? ====
 * ====How does the presence of natural resources affect the national economy? ====
 * ====How does the presence of natural resources affect people's daily lives? ====
 * ====How are the natural resources obtained? ====
 * ====What laws govern the removal of natural resources? ====

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====//The Sumatran forest has shrunk dramatically in the past few decades. The reason for this is the fact that they have been cutting down their timber and then to clear land for reasons such as agriculture and also development. Forest areas that are low land forests have also disappeared with a quite fast nature towards it because they are the easiest to access. Indonesia’s low land forests contain a large number of hardwood trees that can get a high price on international markets. //====

====//The causes of forest loss are complex, but a typical story of forest loss goes such as: Commercial loggers move in first to remove the most valuable tree species for timber and plywood. Then illegal loggers will follow an organisation or a company to clear the remaining trees to use them for pulp fibres. More often then not forests are burned to clear the ground underneath. Once forests have been cleared, the companies switch them to palm oil or commercial pulpwood fibre plantations //====

//This is a diagram of how much forests are still inhabited from 1982-2007 //

====//The presence of the natural resources that were wiped out has a devastating affect towards everyone in Indonesia and more importantly Sumatra affecting the existance of tropical rainforest bu t the of the economy has resulted in corruption and illegal logging which has severely threatened its existence, even the designated conservation areas have not been set apart from this destruction. //====



====//Forests play a very important role for those in Sumatra that live near forests. Forests supply all their needs such as; food, building materials, plants used in medicine. Most of the clean water provided for those who rely on the forests is often damaged due to deforestation, which could either lead to infections or dehydration. //====



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Deforestation has been occruing in Sumatra for almost three decades, Law enforcement have the right to discourage deforestation but only in certain highly protected areas. Indonesian's main reason for deforestation is for palm oil, an oil used mainly for cooking and is used in many products but it's listed as beg table oil or plain oil which makes it hard for us to avoid using palm oil. Half of the worlds original forests had been demolished by 2011 but since 1990 half of the worlds rain forest are gone. Lax forest management and deficient environmental laws are some reasons why deforestation is allowed and occurs on largely spreading scales =====