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52 percent world’s biodiversity loss, Indonesia needs to make changes

Jakarta, Ekuatorial – As world’s biodiversity decline sharply for the past forty years, Indonesia needed to change its production and consumption patterns to avoid further environmental destruction, said CEO WWF-Indonesia Efransjah, in Jakarta, on Friday (10/10).

Talking at the WWF Living Planet Report 2014 Launching, Efransjah said that Indonesia has become too ambitious to become top ten industrial countries in the world.

“Indonesia is becoming too ambitious to become the biggest palm oil and soybean producers, and also the biggest mineral producer in the world,” he said. “[However] the irony is that Indonesia is world’s high emitter with high rate of natural destruction.”

Furthermore, he said that as a part of the community, people have the power to change their lifestyle in order not to give more pressure to earth.

Based on the WWF Living Planet Report 2014, launched globally on September, the world’s biodiversity showed 52 percent decline between 1970 and 2010. The report, launched for every two years, analyzes the health of the earth and the impact of human activities.

Furthermore, Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures ten thousands of species around the world, revealed 56 percent reduction in tropical regions and 67 percent in Asia-Pacific regions. Meanwhile, marine and terrestrial species declined 39 percent. And, freshwater species declined 76 percent.

Marco Lambertini, General Director of WWF International, said the main cause of the declining biodiversity was because of increasing people’s consumption every year. Overfishing, forest destruction, increasing emission, natural disasters and climate change, Lambertini said, were amongst reasons for the loss of the world’s biodiversity.

“It is very crucial to maintain our production and consumption patterns within the limit of our planet. Human needs to shift to a more balance relationships between nature and economy,” he said. “We require an additional 50 percent of natural resources or one and a half earth just to meet our needs.”

Consequently, he encouraged for each countries to be mindful of their natural resources and start to seek alternative solutions. “Because, natural resources is declining if we keep on extracting for our endless needs,” he said. Januar Hakam.

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