Treeless hillsides Palm oil plantations, pulp plantations, illegal logging and forest fires are the key drivers of deforestation in Borneo. Part 1 of 3 – Read Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
They found that the changes in climate were extremely localized, with clear variation in temperature between forested and deforested parts of the island: on average, in Borneo’s lowlands, deforested areas were warmer by 1.7 degrees Celsius than those with forests still intact.The study also showed a particularly significant relationship between forest loss and rainfall reduction, with watersheds characterized by more than 15 percent forest loss experiencing rainfall reduction of more than 15 percent.These trends were consistent across multiple sites around the whole island. But recent decades have brought rapid changes. Large scale conversion of tropical rain forests has had an absolutely devastating impact on biodiversity in both Borneo and Sumatra. WWF projections indicate that if the island of Borneo continues at its current rate of deforestation, it will be severely affected by climate change through the increased risk of floods and forest fires, human health impacts, changes in agricultural yields and damage to infrastructure. Palm oil plantations, the most important tropical vegetable oil in the global oils and fats industry, is the main driver of deforestation in Borneo. erode more quickly, silting up rivers and decreasing water quality. Locally, as the research has shown, climate impact is likely to have “far reaching impacts on the environment, agricultural productivity and human livelihoods in Borneo in coming decades,” McAlpine said.
Most of the country’s islands are now included among the world’s biodiversity hotspots, meaning they’ve lost over 70% of their vegetation but harbor thousands of unique species found nowhere else. As they are the native people they are brought up …
It appears that almost all the marketable trees have now been removed from the areas covered by the MRP.
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The island’s peat swamp forests have been drained extensively to make way for plantations, which increases their susceptibility to fire.The researchers found a strong relationship between deforestation and mean monthly temperature increase, as well as more frequent hot temperature extremes. BONN, Germany (Landscape News) — If you have ever perspired under the sun in the tropics and then experienced the welcome crispness of the shade offered by the leafy boughs of a tree, the focus of a But until now, very little research has been undertaken at regional scales to back that up, says scientist Douglas Sheil, who is a co-author of the study and a senior associate at the The impact of deforestation on ecosystem services and biodiversity is well-documented, but its effect on local climate is much less widely known. “If that evaporation effect is not there, a lot of the energy that’s coming from the sun goes into raising temperatures instead,” Sheil added.The evaporated water forms clouds, which also contribute to cooling.“It’s like a parasol that reflects a lot of the radiation of the sun back into space,” Sheil said – and is a source of rainfall.
It turned out that the channels drained the peat forests rather than irrigating them. Nearby communities, driven by economic needs and having already cleared Gunung Palung was just one small slice of a much larger forest that blanketed the coast and spread inland to Borneo’s interior.
In the MRP area, forest cover dropped from 64.8% in 1991 to 45.7% in 2000, and clearance has continued since then. In addition, deforestation may cause soil erosion and, because most forests have been cleared through the use of fire, massive air pollution from smoke. from one of the highest deforestation rates in the world as forests are