Damage to Our Forests

Forests greatly contribute to the life of living things on earth, because forests are a contributor to oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide, so that everything can breathe properly.

Unfortunately, however, the number of forest destruction has been high enough due to various factors, especially now that there are many functions of forest transition, which could one day lead to greater disasters.

Now the condition of forests is increasingly damaged by selfish humans, with illegal logging and also land conversion, unwittingly will be a source of disaster for life. Not only humans are threatened, but also other living organism ecosystems will be threatened.

Currently Indonesia also occupies the second position of forest destruction in the world, after Brazil. Over the past 15 years, forest destruction in the world has reached 148 million hectares, five of the worst affected countries, Brazil is 42 million hectares and Indonesia 28 million hectares.

Significant forest degradation occurs every year threatening the survival of mankind, as the loss of the forest ecosystem will be damaged, the source of clean water will be lost and food will also be cut off.

The condition of forests in Aceh, which continues to shrink daily and is severely damaged, although campaigns about the ban to destroy forests continue.

Director of thecWahana Lingkungan Hidup (WALHI) Aceh Muhammad Nur said, generally the forest area of Aceh reached 3.5 million hectares and the condition suffered severe damage.

By 2016, deforestation and deforestation occur in various ways, reaching 680 thousand hectares. When compared to 2015, deforestation reached 34 thousand hectares.

destruction of forests in Aceh, caused by factors such as illegal logging, illegal logging, new land clearing and some built infrastructure that causes forest destruction.

Forest destruction in Aceh has occurred since 1998 and severe forest degradation began in 2004 and of course the pattern undertaken at that time is not as big as now.

So far, there are 44 road construction projects that contribute to the destruction of forests in Aceh Province, such as the example of the construction of the Ladia Galaska (Indian Ocean, Gayo Alas and Malacca Strait) road projects undertaken by the Aceh Government. since 2002-2007.

The project links between east and west Aceh across 470 kilometers, over the plateau of Mount Lauser and has a major impact on the destruction of the ecosystem there.

But surely there are many actors who contribute to the destruction of forests in Aceh Province and the various modes and ways that are done. Forests should be a thing that really should be protected, because it involves the issue of community life.

The most severe forest degradation occurs in almost all areas, but there are four areas where severe forest degradation, in Aceh Utara, East Aceh, Tamiang District and South Aceh.

For the area of North Aceh, the biggest forest damage contributors are the transition to industrial timber estates (HTI), and forest areas in East Aceh are rampant illegal logging practices, for Aceh Taming in addition to illegal logging, and rampant. logging and logging companies in South Aceh are rampant due to illegal logging.

The most unfortunate thing is that many of the protected forests in Aceh are also beginning to be undermined, because the best location to be a business area of protected forest areas and now the existence of protected forests is very alarming.