Deforestation and Forest Degradation Sample Clauses

Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Conversion to agricultural plantation, mining, transmigration, fire and encroachment are the main causes of deforestation in Jambi. This is mostly in production forests, followed by limited production forests, conservation areas and protected forests which, between 2003 and 2006, amounted to 34,787.5 ha (Table 3). This rate of deforestation may, in part, be due to the lack of conversion production forest i.e., forest intended for conversion to agricultural land or other land uses, in Jambi. Due to deforestation and forest degradation Indonesia has become one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. The sources of carbon stock in forests comes from forest cover, agro-forestry, plantations, fallow land, grassland, shifting cultivation/garden, housing compounds and surrounding and mixed unproductive land. Emissions from the forestry sector occurs as carbon stocks are depleted and released into the atmosphere when forests and other woody biomass stock, and grass lands, are converted or land management ceases, and forest fire (PEACE 2007).