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(04/07/2010) The Indonesian Forestry Ministry's proposal to define palm oil plantations as forests is a controversy showing government's two faces in the natural resources conservation efforts.

(03/27/2010) The decreasing population of North Moluccan parrots which threats the birds with extinction has moved a famous Indonesian music group band that has more than four millions fans all over Indonesia, SLANK, to campaign for parrot protection together with ProFauna Indonesia, a wildlife protection organization.

(02/25/2010) The decreasing forests in Java Island threats the lives of humans and wildlife, especially those endemic to the Island. The recently increasing natural and man-made disasters indicate that forests have degraded.

Last year, 22 August 2009, a tiger in Rimbo Jambi Zoo, Sumatera, Indonesia, was stolen and brutally killed, leaving its intestines and ribs in her cage. ProFauna, as a wildlife protection organization in Indonesia has been fighting against such wildlife cruelty and crime in the country.

According to ProFauna's review in 2009 about wildlife trade in Indonesia (Wildlife Illegal Trade and Smuggling in Indonesia Remains High) showing that the illegal trade in the country remained high, the release also mentioned, however, that the Indonesian Police have managed to run 27 operations of 53 wildlife crimes.

(01/06/2010) Forests in Java Island, Indonesia, degrade which threat human and other living things on the Island, especially wildlife endemic to Java. Based on the deforestation pace published by the Forestry Department for 2003-2006 period, the largest deforestation happened in Sumatera which was 268,000 hectares/year or 22,8% of the total deforestation in Indonesia which was 1.17 millions hectares/year. The next places were in Kalimantan for 239,000 hectares/year (20.4%), Sulawesi for 114,700 hectares/year (9.8 %), and Java for 2,500 hectares/year (0.2%).