Illegal logging and land clearance have damaged 56 million hectares of Indonesian forests and it takes 56 years to rehabilitate them, an official said Wednesday.
"If the replanting grows at the rate of 1 million hectares a year, we need 56 years to save all the damaged forests," Forestry Minister Malam Sabat Kaban was quoted by the national Antara news agency as saying.
He claimed that over the last four years, the replanting program has saved 3 million hectares of forest.
"Previously, the destruction affected 59 million hectares of the country's total 120 million hectares of forest. The damaged forest has been reduced to 56 million hectares," he said during a visit to the southern Java town of Yogyakarta.
Source:Xinhua
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