Indonesian forest destroyed.

La forêt indonésienne dévastée

Planète Géo par Sandrine Marcy dimanche 6 mars 2016
Ces troncs de bois exotique, arrachés à la jungle seront tous exportés.

Ces troncs de bois exotique, arrachés à la jungle seront tous exportés. © Géo Marion Parent.

Chaque minute, en Indonésie, on déboise l’équivalent de six terrains de football ! La forêt a perdu six millions d’hectares entre 2000 et 2012, “un poumon vert aussi grand que l’Irlande”, affirme le magazine “Géo” qui publie un reportage alarmant.

Every minute, in Indonesia, deforestation equivalent to six football pitches occurs! Forestry has lost six million hectares between 2000 and 2012, “a green lung as big as Ireland”, confirmed the magazine “Geo” who have published the alarming report.

La troisième plus vaste forêt tropicale au monde, continue d’être saignée…
Les arbres précieux rasés, essentiellement pour les industries de de la pâte à papier et de l’agroalimentaire.

The third biggest tropical forest in the world continues to be suffering heavy losses. Precious hardwoods are leveled, essentially for the paper pulp and agricultural industries. 

Les plantations de palmiers à huile s’étendent à perte de vue et font vivre plus de 20 millions d’Indonésiens.

Palm oil plantations are stretching outwards as far as the eye can see and contributing to the lives of more than 20 million Indonesians.

Il faut savoir que cette production est beaucoup plus intéressante, entre huit et dix fois plus que le colza ou le tournesol.

It is known that these crops are more productive, between eight and ten times more that rape seed and sunflower oil.  

A Kalimantan, le village est noyé dans une mer de palmiers.

A Kalimantan, le village est noyé dans une mer de palmiers.© Géo Marion Parent. This village is awash in a sea of palms.

Sur l’île de Bornéo, Marion Parent, la reporter de Géo, a pu assister à la descente ininterrompue de bois, sur les fleuves, jusqu’à la mer de Java, de dizaines de milliers de troncs ensuite exportés vers les pays occidentaux.

On the island of Borneo, a Geo reporter descended uninterrupted timber, on rivers as far as the sea of Java, where tens of millions of tree trunks are to be exported to western countries.

Le cours du Lamandau qui irrigue le sud de Bornéo, charrie des cortèges de troncs.

Le cours du Lamandau qui irrigue le sud de Bornéo, charrie des cortèges de troncs. © Géo Marion Parent. The course of the river that irrigates the south of Borneo, carries the cortege of trunks.

Mais pour autant, les géants de l’huile de palme, tout comme les industriels de la pâte à papier, ne sont pas les seuls responsables de cette déforestation, c’est tout un système.

As much as it is, the giants of palm oil, and all of the industrial paper pulp, are not the only reasons for this deforestation, it is the whole systematic destruction that is permitted.

En attendant mieux, le président Indonésien Joko Widodo s’est engagé à faire restaurer deux millions d’hectares de forêt.

On the other hand, for the better Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia, is making efforts to restore two million hectares of forest. 

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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