2001 Deforestation Law Rainforest 
A Greener Life
JANUARY 20, 2023
Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. In 2001, the Clinton administration enacted the Roadless Rule , which banned road-building and timber harvesting in certain forested areas, including much of the Tongass.
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