REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PADANG -- Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) reported some natural forests in the West Sumatra province may face extinction due to the rapid illegal logging, the director Uslaini stated here on Tuesday. 

"The (West Sumatra) province has about 2.3 million hectares natural forests. During 2009 to 2013, the number of the land had declined by 81,830 hectares due to the deforestation," the West Sumatra Walhi executive director Uslaini stated in the capital city of Padang. 

Because of the deforestation, now only 1,683 ha remained, she remarked while adding the rate of the illegal logging has reached around 20,457 ha per year. 

According to the campaigner's records and studies, apart from the logging, the deforestation occurred because of the illegal mining, the wildfires, the plantations, and the industrial activities, as well as the poor forest management.