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The Deforesting of Irian Jaya
Baker, Russ W. | February 7, 1994 issue

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Change in Irian Jaya, Indonesia is way too rapid for this fragile land, the western half of the island of New Guinea and the easternmost province of the 13,000-island Indonesian archipelago. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the valley town of Wamena. Each year, Indonesia loses 3 million acres of green. Annual plywood exports have tripled since 1986. At the current rate, the country's old-growth forest will have disappeared entirely by midway through the next century. The provinces of Borneo, the largest island in the Indonesian archipelago, are already heavily denuded, and Irian Jaya is now the chief magnet for the chain saw.

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DEFORESTATION; FORESTS & forestry; PLYWOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; PAPUA (Indonesia); INDONESIA
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