Date: October 8, 2010
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Over the past 20 years” the region reviewed in this report – South East Asia stretching from Laos across to Indonesia – has experienced major changes in forest cover” social development and forest policy. Natural forests have shrunk dramatically and continue to be degraded and cleared at startling rates. Forest areas set aside for protection have increased. At the same time large areas of land and forest have been ‘converted’ to timber plantations and estate crops. During the same period” both for better and for worse” the forest peoples who inhabit these areas have also been through tumultuous changes.