Abstract
Copyright: © 2012 Agoramoorthy G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The Asia Pacific region covers 23% of the world’s land area but 58% of its people. Patterns of unsustainable resource use and conflicting policies are already causing continued loss of forest and biodiversity in Asia, including the biological hotspots [1]. Forests play a crucial role not only to support millions of life forms but also in regulating climate by storing carbon. The continuing forest degradation aggravates the already precarious state of the remaining forests in Asia since the demand for forest products can no longer be satisfied by sustainable harvest. As a result, the diversity of plants and animals are declining and carbon emission is above the earth’s carbon‐fixing capacity while the human population pressure continues to flourish without interruption. Thus the survival of both humans and other life forms will largely depends on the future ethical use and management of Asia’s natural resources.
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