In this rhythm, say scientists, the two islands in Indonesia will loose all their forest area until 2020

The specialists affirm that in case the deforestation continues to advance in the current rhythm, the two ocean Indonesian islands will loose completely their forest area by 2020.

Both Borneo and Sumatra have the two of the biggest tropical forests of the world.

However, Borneo today has only halt of the forest area it used to have; from 2003 to 2007, the island lost an average of 1.15 million hectares of vegetation per year.

In the case of Sumatra, the numbers are similar: in the period from 1985 and 2007, about 550 thousand hectares were destroyed per year.

This means that, in the last two decades, a forest of about 88 soccer fields disappeared every each hour, according to WWF research.

According to Radday, one of the species which can suffer the most the consequences is the orangutan, because if all the forests areas in which they live would be destroyed, this animal would have a few chances to live in the wild.