420 acres have already been bulldozed. They want to level 692,000 acres...
What do you think will happen to all the wild animals who live there if this horrible project continues?
Add your name if you want to stop this catastrophe, NOW!
"A new company has begun clearing rainforest in an area of Indonesia's easternmost Papua province earmarked to become the world's largest oil palm plantation, in a vast project that has been mired in allegations of lawbreaking.
"If seen through to completion, the Tanah Merah project will generate an estimated $6 billion in timber and create a plantation almost twice the size of London, at the heart of the largest tract of intact rainforest left in Asia.
"Since March of last year, the Digoel Agri Group, founded by a politically connected Jakarta family and now backed by an investor from New Zealand, has bulldozed 170 hectares (420 acres) of rainforest in a section of the project previously spared from land clearing, satellite imagery shows.
"The clearance amounts to a fraction of the 280,000 hectares (692,000 acres) allocated for the project, now controlled by several different conglomerates. But it signals that deforestation could quickly accelerate," according to Mongabay.
Let that number sink in...
692,000 acres.
Just think how many helpless animals will perish, after their homes have been destroyed...
These precious forests are filled with countless creatures, including some that are endangered, such as the black-spotted cuscus, several species of tree kangaroo, birds of paradise, bats, and more.
When the forest dies, so do they.
It's time for the government of Indonesia to take action, before it's too late.
That's why we're calling on Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Indonesia's Minister of Environment and Forestry, to use her authority to put wheels in motion to stop this horrible project.
Don't you want to save a forest almost twice the size of London from being cut down?
Then add your name to ask Indonesia's Minister of Environment and Forestry to stop Tanah Merah palm oil plantation project once and for all!
