JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Indonesia, which is losing its forests faster than any other country, hopes to plant 79 million trees in a single day ahead of a major U.N. climate change meeting this year, a Forestry Ministry spokesman said Friday. The trees, mostly eucalyptus and teak, will be planted across the world's fourth-largest nation on Nov. 28, said the spokesman, Masyhud, who uses one name.
About 4.5 million acres of Indonesian forest were destroyed each year from 2000 to 2005. In addition to massive commercial logging for timber, Indonesian forests are also being decimated by fires and land clearing for palm oil plantations.