Petition updateSave Leuser: Reject the Aceh Spatial Plan

Leuser More Threatened Than Ever

Nicholas AldenRushford, NY, United States
15 Aug 2017 — http://globalconservation.org/news/unesco-world-heritage-committee-keeps-leuser-ecosystem-world-her/ "Today, a wave of major new industrial projects being fast tracked for development within the Leuser Ecosystem threaten to destroy the integrity of the site, despite the fact that they will violate Indonesian laws and make a mockery of the World Heritage Site listing. Panut Hadisiswoyo, Director of Orangutan Information Centre, commented, “Our critique highlights numerous serious threats to Leuser’s forests. They include several new hydropower dams and geothermal energy plants being proposed in critical areas, a continued lack of law enforcement throughout the region and the devastating construction of new roads that carve up and fragment forests and wildlife populations rendering them increasingly vulnerable to extinction."
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