Orangutan Forest

Indonesia has the largest tropical rainforest in Asia. It occupies about 10% of the remaining rainforests on earth. However, the rainforests have been rapidly devastated by illegal deforestation and fires over the past 40 years. In particular, forest fires that broke out in various parts of Indonesia in the spring of 2015 were the worst in the last 20 years and continued to spread for several months. The fire eventually wiped out 2.6 million hectares of rainforest, as much as 12 in Tokyo.  

Many animals and plants, including endangered species such as orangutans, which means "forest people" in Indonesian, inhabit the tropical rainforests that nurture a rich ecosystem, but they are deprived of their habitat by repeated forest fires.  

In Indonesia, there is a vast peatland that is created by accumulating trees on the ground surface without being decomposed, and a large amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) is generated by the decomposition of peat containing a large amount of carbon due to a fire, is also a big problem. Fires that occur in peatlands continue to smolder underground even if the flames appear to have disappeared on the surface of the earth, and it is difficult to extinguish the fire completely, so fires occur repeatedly.  

At the same time as regenerating forests by planting trees, we are also developing infrastructure such as firebreaks and reservoirs in preparation for repeated fires.