Grade 9 Science Journal Q1

palm oil companies are responsible for the deforestation. No other ecosystems were effected but if Borneo continues at its current rate of deforestation it will increase risk of floods and forest fires. Logging, mining, and plantation development, especially from palm oil plantations have contributed to massive deforestation and impacting the island’s orangutan population. To date, Borneo has lost nearly 150,000 orangutans over the last 16 years.

The unsuitability of the terrain may also result in large-scale soil erosion, flooding and increase the risk of fire