Does deforestation mean forever?

By Charlie • October 31, 2008 • 1 comment

Not necessarily. Birdlife International is reporting the near miraculous recovery of a logged Sumatran lowland forest which is being protected and restored by three conservation groups working to regenerate a 101,170 hectare site on an island on which most forests have been lost to oil palm or timber plantations. Sending a message to the world they’ve called the forest Harapan - Indonesian for “hope”.

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

One Response to “Does deforestation mean forever?”

Rick Wright Oct 31st, 2008 at 11:23 am

That is good news indeed. The entire eastern half of the United States has undergone the same reforeststion in the last hundred years: well, at least that part of it that hasn’t been paved and mcmansioned. I saw a really impressive example last week in Xalapa, Veracruz; the city’s central volcano, Macuiltepetl, was entirely denuded until the 1950s, and now, to the untrained eye at least, looks good as new.
Harapan!