Illegal logging is a huge problem in Indonesia. People like to chop down trees and sell the teak to make furniture’s also to make paper. Illegal logging affects communities that lose their natural forests resources, make the animals homeless, flood, landslide and etc. there are about 73% percent of Indonesia’s logging is illegal.

Wild illegal logging has been blamed for recent flash floods that hit six villages in North Sumatra, killing dozens of people, Regent Amru Daulay has said. Amru blamed deforestation after inspecting the baron area that was once a forest not far from the disaster areas, adding the area was previously part of a forest concession area (HPH)

Bibliography: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/18/regent-blames-flash-floods-illegal-logging.html

orang utan extinction

The Sumatran species is critically endangered and the Bornean species of orangutans is endangered according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, and both are listed on Appendix I of CITES. The total number of Bornean orangutans is estimated to be less than 14 percent of what it was in the recent past (from around 10,000 years ago until the middle of the twentieth century) and this sharp decline has occurred mostly over the past few decades due to human activities and development. Species distribution is now highly patchy throughout Borneo: it is apparently absent or uncommon in the south-east of the island, as well as in the forests between the Rejang River in central Sarawak and the Padas River in western Sabah (including the Sultanate of Brunei). The largest remaining population is found in the forest around the Sabangau River, but this environment is at risk. A similar development have been observed for the Sumatran orangutans.

Sumatran Orangutan at the orangutan rehabilitation center in Bukit Lawang
The most recent estimate for the Sumatran Orangutan is around 7,300 individuals in the wild while the Bornean Orangutan population is estimated at between 45,000 and 69,000. These estimates were obtained between 2000 and 2003. Since recent trends are steeply down in most places due to logging and burning, it is forecast that the current numbers are below these figures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan

Tiger Poaching in Jambi

The tiger population in the province of Jambi, Sumatra, is rapidly decreasing. According to the Jakarta Post, the amount of tigers in he province was more than 50 a couple of years ago, but now, there is only less than twenty left. Didy Wuryanto, the leader of the Jambi Natural Resources Center, said that if the poaching keeps continuing at this rate, the tigers will be extinct in Jambi within the next few years. Didy also said that there have been 10 cases on illegal trading of tiger parts in this year, and most of them happened in Jambi. From August to November last year, 4 tiger pelt traders were caught and arrested. Most of these traders work together with professional hunters who hunt for tigers in the forests, and most of them send the tiger parts to Jakarta, where it's fur and skin can cost up to 75 million rupiahs.

Overfishing happens when fish and the reef are harvested faster than they
reproduce.The over-harvested of reef also affects the life of the fish.
Moreover some people do the fishing using bomb or dynamite. Fish are killed
by the shock of this bomb and the people will just collect the fish on the surface
of the sea.
This explosion does not only kill the fish but also the marine-organism and the structure
of coral reefs.

What's going to happen !!

This is happening now, people

are chopping trees down illegally.

This is going to happen soon if illegal logging continues.

LET'S STOP ILLEGAL LOGGING !!!

Illegal Logging declines in Indonesia

Illegal Logging in Indonesia is decreasing

Indonesian Minister of Forestry MS Kaban claims that illegal logging cases have continued to decline across the archipelago in the last four years because of the law enforcement.

In the 1990s, there were 9,600 cases of illegal logging compared to only a few hundred in the last 4 years. Illegal logging has long been the main cause of forest decreasing in Indonesia, as the world's third-largest forest country, with about 120 million hectares.

This is a good start to end the whole illegal logging case or problem, i am glad that it's decreasing.

Bibliography:

www.thejakartapost.com

Tourism- animal trafficking

let me take south africa as an example. criminals think that there are going to be rich tourists coming to their land.because of that they want to make money. they train monkeys to rob purses, bags, jewerly and lots of other things that a robber wants. if they succeed in this robbing system, they are going to start trafficking monkeys and other animals. that is another problem to be concerned. that is why we have to stop this from happening to indonesia. this also starts happening in bali so that means we have to stop it right away. before this problem gets bigger, we need to stop new islands from becoming tourism destinations.

using animal for sport

in indonesia have many fish fight. and usualy that fight makes one fish die.

orangutans extinction

cause: 1. predator: aside from human activity, young orangutans are preyed on clouded, leopard, bearded pigs, and black eagles.
2. disease: like most great apes, orangutans are susceptible to many human disease and ailments

effects: orangutan is a keystone species for conversation the number of orangutan is declining fast soon it will be face the possible extinction from this planet.

possible solutions: stop hunting the orangutan from individual and group pirpose.

bibliography: www.google.com

tourism

causes: tourism make our world dirty but some tourist not make our world dirty so we need to tell tourist, like we make a sign or etc.

effects:the effect is our world will be dirty and global warming and many thing will be gone

possible solutions:i think we need to tell them like make a sign and need to tell him

Mining in Indonesia

Causes of mining in Indonesia:

People mine in Indonesia because they got money easly with that kind of job, because minerals (golds, silvers, and others) are one of the expensive things in the world.

Effects of mining in Indonesia:

Some places in Indonesia that have been used to mine, sometimes that place were the places where usually earthquake happened.

Possible Solutions:

Don't mine, and find other job if can

rhinos

thecause of decline is almost antrely poaching for the horn thrught the use of traps and snares placed in the forest
the effect only around 200 sumatran rhinos survive
the possible solution sumatran rhinos exist only is protected area where they are physically guarded from harm by rhinos protection unit
www.rhinos-org /sumatran/

possible solutions

The solution is actually simple, but for some tourists, very hard to do. one way to solve this problem is to stop wanting tours in tropical islands. what makes it hard is the fact that having a vacation in tropical islands are very fun to do.now that the whole world revolves around it, it is very hard to let go. another solution is to make new islands as tourism destination illegal. but how?? well thats the hard part. we can't dirrectlymake it illegal since we have no such poeition. what we can do is convince people with authority to do it for us, and there we have it. "why do we have to save nature?? Why me??" that is probably what you have been asking. then who else would?? rather than waiting for some one to rescue nature why don't you be the hero?? it's your choice, the impact comes later......

EFFECTS

brand new islands began to be more like a city. hotels, busses, cars, mals, resorsts and air port. those things causes polution, illegal logging, natures loss, rubish, and many more city issues. it will make Indonesia lost its nature which is wealth to most of Indonesians. it also means that it contributes to global warming, since it is supposed to be donating oxygen and stuff, but it donates polutions and lots of other bad things for change. perhaps we will not be able to see nature again. if we don't stop this it's going to continue building up chains. that is why we have to stop this issue NOW!!

causes

People wants to make money, it's the main cause of making islands as tourism destinations. tourists keeps flooding in tour requests in a tropial island. because of that people wants to have certain islands to theirselves. because of the low security, they have the islands to theimselves. maybe if the government made a strict policy about it, we will be able to keep the islands save from being destoyed. rather than blaming on each other about 'who started it' we better try to solve this problem. in my opinion, we could do the least, that is TO NOT WANT A NEW ISLAND DESTROYED by NOT FLOODING IN REQUESTED TO TOUR IN TROPICAL ISLANDS!!

airpollution

WHO?????????
WHO WILL SAVE OUR WORLD

LOOK AT OUR LOVELY EARTH

WHO??WHO???
WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR EARTH

WHEN???????

WHEN WILL PEOPLE TAKE CARE FOR OUR EARTH

???UNTIL IT'S DOOMSDAY??????

IF YOU AND US START WORKING TOGETHER
TAKE CARING OF OUR LOVELY AND BEAUTIFUL EARTH
WHO KNOWS WE CAN MAKE A BETTER AND BRIGHTER WORLD

1 MAN CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING
HOW ABOUT IF WE ALL DO IT
TOGETHER????

effects of air polltuion

almost allpeople know that air pollution affect our health

we can be affect by air pollution in many ways both short

term and long term. usually children suffer more from the

effects of air pollution

causes of airpolltuion

one main cause of air pollution is carbon dioxide
it comes from human activity like using car

to go near places. You know that carbon dioxide

is so harmful when someone produce it

Mining Indonesia

Causes :
After people do the mining and they're satisfied with their gold . They just leave the dirt that they dig out and they dont care about the effects . So the tailings has gone and is mixed into the water ( rivers, etc). Or they just directly throw it at the river or other unappropiate places .

Effects :
The effects are that the copper contamination and acid rock will destroy the rivers, land surfaces and groundwater. So the mining waste are spreaded all over the water and fishes die and there are people deceased. People also found Mercury, antimony and arsenic which are poison. Or other than that the waste is spreaded into the village .

Solutions :
People should throw their waste in the right place or just use it for digging in another place . People should also make a law about not destroying or throwing stuff in the water or just basiclly people should not litter.

Golden Effects

gold mining

beautiful, rich

sweating , sparkling, shining

Hard work gets good money

throwing, leaving waste, issue

sick, die

Deceased Environment

overfishing is the activity that is the most financially detrimental to reefs in Indonesia and the Philippines. In Indonesia , fishing sustainably can generate as much as US$ 63,000 per km2 more over a 20-year period

At the past people all around indoneisa hunt for baby orangutans for the poeple in the village can have them as pets

when they want to steal the baby orangutans they kill their parents and take the child home to the village. They give the baby orangutans to the people there and have them as pets. When the orangutans are already big and not save to play with they will kill the orangutans.

lombok 2010

try to imagine two pictures. one picture with lot's of people in it and one picture is purely natural.Those pictures represents lombok. lombok is a very beautiful tropical island in Indonesia. this beautiful island is very rich in nature. because of it's beauty, Indonesian government plans to make lombok as a world class tourist destination. I bet you now know where this is going. one picture with lots of tropical sights appears to be lombok before becoming a world class tourist detination. the other one represents how lombok is going to look like after it become a tourist destination. try to observe the picture which has lots of people in it. it creates water polution, air polution, rubishes evrywhere and worst of all nature is destroyed.

Destroying Coral Reefs

Causes: Coral reef destroy cause the temperature. It can live in certain temperature. Green house gas are the main problem, because it can make the temperature change.

Effects: Ten percent of the world's reefs have been completely destroyed and only 5 percent can be said to be in good condition.

Possible Solutions: Experts have found a new way to save and to restore the population of coral reefs in some oceans, espeacilly in Bunaken and Manado Tua, where most of the coral reefs destroyed. The solution introduced is to make finger shaped ecoreefs from ceramics.

Bibliography:
-http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/corals.htm
-http://www.indonesia.go.id/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7832&itemid696

Illegal Logging

Causes, Effects, Possible solutions

Causes

- People do this because they want to make paper and so on

- The illegal loggers do this because they can make lots of money.

Effects

- The forests will all be vanished

- Global warming will take effect

- The animals will lose their habitat

Possible solutions

- Do the 3rs Recycle, Reuse and Reduce

- The government should limit the trees that can be cut

- GO GREEN !!!

Bibliography

- http://www.google.com/

- http://www.answers.com/

the causes of tiger poaching :
tigers are suspected of having been killed and sold
people are killing tigers to get some money
people are killing tigers to take the bone, is use for medical
the chinese black-market is about two products skins and bones

the effects of tiger poaching :
tiger population can appear stable yet fail to withstand an unexpected disaster, such as bad weather, disease, or reproductive problems, authors note
poaching can reduces genetic diversity, which makes the population loss robust
the population of tigers is decrease

the possible solutions :
trying to stop poaching is the almost total reliance on one policy to curb it
bust one conspiracy or monitor one route into a country, and the smugglers will give up

Animal Sports and circuses

Causes
The causes of people using animal to entertain other are people are trying to collect more money. They thinks that by doing that, they can produce alot of money. Beside that people can't understand animals feeling. They just think about their own feeling. They are doing it to entertain other too. They use animal to fight in Bali, Sumatra, Flores, and Sulawesi to attract the tourism.

Effects
The effects are moving the animals from town to town. The animals are suffering a lot. Beside that they are seperated from their families and friends. Also animals are hurting and people let their bleed flows a lot. Beside that animal have no choice. If they can talk they won't do it for humans. Animals are getting stressed.

Possible Solution
We can support the animals right group. We also must thinks that circuses is one of the place where animals suffer alot. We must not visit tourism places exploiting animals.

Bibliography
http://www.profauna.org/content/en/be_aware/don't_visit_tourism_places_

Natural Disaster-Flood

Causes:
-too much rain/heavy rain
-rubbish everywhere
-broken damp
-people chop the trees
-ice in pole melt

Effects:
-less popullation
-infectious disease
-lost their family
-broken buildings
-no healthy water and food


Solutions
-dont chop the trees
-throw rubbish in the right place
-be aware
-build high building if there's flood happen

poor javan rhinoceros

causes

1. people have been cutting their horns to trade too china because in hina they believe it is a healing properties
2. made for armors
3. Vietnamese believe it is a anti-snake venom
4. it is hard o convince those hunter to stop the hunting even the government pays the they think their money is more but the didn't realize if that is broking the forest

effects

1. our next generation will not see them
2. Vietnam could not have the anti-venom
3. extinction

solutions

1. more reproduction
   
2. stop killing them
   

bibliography

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/javan_rhinoceros
   

Animals Habitats Has Been Destroyed T.T

Causes:

• People chop down trees for their own needs
• The forests are being destroyed around the world because their trees are being logged
• Humans are clearing trees and made cities
• Forest fires
• Some farmers chop down trees to make fields

Effects:

• Some monkeys and apes finds food in the tallest trees. Loggers cut the tallest tressa and leaving the only short ones.
• Many animals become endangered; Gorillas,Pandas,Elephants and the Florida Panther. Their habitat has been destroyed and the humans are hunting the to extinction
• Indonesia has lost 72% of its intact ancient forests
• Animals go to villages and attack the people to find foods
• Animal used for circus

Possible Solution:

• Dont destroy the forest by not cutting down those fresh trees. But keep it clean and let the animals stays longer there
• Make sonme laws
• Protect the endangered animals
• Stop making pollution

Overfishing in Indonesia

Cause:
many of us likes to eat fish
Fishermans are addicted
Because it's their job
To get money
To be a furniture

Effects: -
fish population decrease
Sea become emptier
+
Sea's smeliness decrease
sea level decreasa

Animal Habitat

Causes-Effects-Possible Solution

Causes:

Global warming all around the world was one of the effect of the aminal losing their habitat.

some of the pople always burnt or cutting the forrest down.

effects:

the effects was the forest wass all destroyed and the coral, down at the river or ocean was all destroyed by people fault. animals/ fish was taken when the coral was beeing dynamited.

possible solutions:

I think we must act and we must stop global warming. we could make things that don't produce pollutions

Causes:
-The decrease of trees in Surabaya done by deforestation, illegal logging by human
- Human Stupidity
-Some by Mother Nature itself (Raining and natural disasters)
-Global Warming-Climate Change
-Littering happened everywhere

Effects:
-Ruining the Human Race
-Destroyed Habitat
-Less Population
-No Shelter And Daily Needs
-Infectious Disease
-Sea Level Rising

Solutions:
-Don't Cut More Trees
-Make A Strict Law
-Tecnology Education For Everybody
-No Littering

Biobliography:
-http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00758/en/disaster/flood/prevention.html
-http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008082903445aAAalED
-http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=lp1520

Illegal Logging in Indonesia

-Cause-Effect-Possible Solution-

Causes-Illegal logging is a bad way to make money. People tend to chop down trees but wouldn't plant back the trees to replace the trees they've chopped down. People take the teak and they sell it so they have money for their own needs. They just think about their needs but don't care about the environment.

Effects-people always chop down trees but not plant trees. If they continue to do it,soon the forests in Indonesia will all be gone so the animals will be lose their habitat and it would make the animals extinct. It would also cause global warming and natural disasters. If there is no more trees, there would be more landslides and floods.

Possible Solutions-these are some possible solutions:

- plant more trees in the place that can be plant

- less chop down trees

- make the furniture with other materials, less making furniture with wood

- replace the trees chopped

- the amount of trees chopped must have a limit

Bibliography-

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/threats/illegal-logging

http:www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2002/timber_mafia/viewpoints/viewpointsdohert.htm

The Cause of Tiger Poaching

Why do people poach tigers? These poachers have these so-called beliefs that the tiger's brain will cure pimples and laziness, the tiger's whiskers will prevent toothaches, the tiger's nose will cure epilepsy, and even the the tiger's PENIS are made into a soup as an aphrodisiac! This results in more than 60 tigers killed in the last 10 years in Sumatra, and 8.700 pounds of tiger bones being imported from Indonesia to South Korea! And remember, these so-called treatments are completely unproven by science and have absolutely no real medical value. These poachers are just COMPLETELY nuts!

Golden Effects

Golden mining
beautiful , rich
glowing, sparkling, shining
Hard Work Gets Good Money
throwing, leaving waste, issues
sick , die
deceased environment

Eating,

Swinging, gliding

playing, happy, big home

People hunt for them and keep cutting trees

Orangutans won't stay long,

They'll be gone

pollution is everywhere

dusty,unhealty

deathly, dangerous , fatal

people suffer

sickness, climate changing ,

dying , selfish , cruel

people don't even care

Lost Fishy Fishy

overfishing

sinister , illegal

killing , taking , trawling

empty ocean , extinction of fishes

dying , suffering , shrieking fish

fishing , unimaginable

fishnapping

Tourism Destroys Nature

tropical island

beautiful, natural

fishing, diving, surfing

nature destroyed, hotels everywhere, destroying the land

burning, poluting, smoking

nature's beauty destroyed

Tiger Poaching Diamente Poem

Tigers Under Threat

Striving Tigers

Freedom, Liberty,

Running, Pouncing, Roaring,

Indonesian Tigers Roam in the Wild-

Poaching, Killing, Destroying,

Cruel, Merciless,

Dying Tigers

Animal Sports

Free Animal

Happy, Peace

Playing, laughing, running

Animal can't talk but we can do something for them

Entertaining, Killing, Crying

Cruel, Angry

Suffering Animal

Kim Inne Bum Gee' s Poem

Oh Disaster, We Hate You

Dangerous, Creepy

Terrifying, Crying, Hating

Go away and don't ever come back another day

Feeling, Thinking, Seeing

Peace, Calm

Just let our Sky be BLue

poem abot javan rhinoceros

huge animal

strong,enormous

breathing,living,eating

endangered animal of indonesia

dying, crying, killing

exist,sad

endangered animal

BC Times poem

Beautiful Jungle,

green, packed,

cooling, refreshing, breathing,

less plants, less oxygen

burning, clearing, chopping,

disaster, global warming,

bye bye jungle

Getting Started

Welcome. 

This is 7C's blog investigating many different issues that are currently affecting Indonesia's environment - everything from tourism to hunting rhinos!

Over the next couple of months we will be posting lots of information, videos and photos about the issues, and giving you our opinions on them. We'll also be thinking up brilliant ways that we can help to solve these issues, and how we can educate the public in order to raise awareness. 

Wish us luck!