About This Lesson
Indonesia's forest fires are emerging as a global threat & driving a public health emergency. Seen through the eyes of locals, 'Forest fire families' portrays the devastation the fires & smoky haze have on ordinary people. Indonesia's forests are the third largest in the world & its swamp-like peatlands are one of the world's biggest carbon stores. But decades of forest clearance to make way for industrial scale plantations is creating a tinderbox. Smoke from these fires add to air pollution & can be attributed to an average of 110,000 deaths per year. Business as usual cannot continue.
