“Crisis is a much overused term,” said Dr Terry Sunderland of the Bogor based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and a member of the conference organizing committee. “But in terms of global biodiversity at this point, I think it entirely justified. For Indonesia, with its extraordinary wealth of plant and animal life, this crisis is acute.” Sunderland said that biodiversity loss is a time bomb that has the potential to severely damage the global systems that sustain life on earth.
