Illegal logging in Indonesia

Indonesia is one of the countries that has variety nature resources. One of these wealth resources is very big areas of rainforest. It covers the area nearly size of France.

However, these characteristics attract other countries like China the world's second largest timber importer after the USA and the first wooden furniture exporter in the world. In 1998, China's worst floods killed 2500 people and damaged big areas of trees that were used in furniture manufacturing. After that, the china government went to recovering the problem by looking elsewhere to satisfy their appetite, and Indonesia has become the main supplier. But they use illegal way to recover their losses by smuggling the hard wood from Indonesia.

The problems were come from cutting big areas of hard wood trees by poor people in Indonesia those effects on the environment. Unorganized cutting down trees damaged hundreds of acres of nature forest and effect on the ecosystem also. That can raise the temperature in the world. This is one of the Global warming factors and there are chances of fire happen in these places.

To solve this problem Indonesia and China must agree to work together to stop illegal trade of hardwood timber. China is starting to plant more forests for export. In addition, Indonesia’s government has put restrict rules to reduce logging of hard wood trees.