Petition updateCease the Construction of the Kluet DamThe Last Place
Nicholas AldenRushford, NY, United States
Jul 30, 2017 — https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/as-indonesias-leuser-ecosystem-faces-multiple-threats-local-resistance-grows/ I want to emphasize this as much as possible. Leuser is not the last place where elephants, tigers, rhinos, and elephants live together in the wild. Only the Kluet watershed holds all four species. If the kluet is destroyed it will most likely mean the extinction of the Sumatran Rhino. With less than 100 left in the world, we simply cannot afford to loose the Kluet. "In addition to Tampur, a 180-megawatt hydropower dam is planned for South Aceh Regency. This project, known as Kluet 1, is the product of Chinese-Indonesian consortium PT Trinusa Energy Indonesia, with a total investment of 5.6 trillion rupiah ($420 million). As planned, the Kluet dam will affect 443.79 hectares of protected forest in the subdistricts of Meukek, Sawang, Samadua, Tapaktuan and Central Kluet. The Kluet 1 Dam will also affect another 19.34 hectares of land not zoned as protected forest. 'PT Trinusa Energy Indonesia just recently received from the Aceh forestry service a recommendation for a permit to use protected forests, for geological surveys,” said Muhammad Nur, Aceh director of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi). “The fact on the ground is that this company is cutting trees on the riverbank to set up a base camp and helicopter landing pad, as well as rock drilling.'”
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