Under the agreement, Norway will provide one billion dollars over five years to assist efforts to reduce emissions, including a two-year moratorium on granting new forest conversion permits.

He is also working to use moderate and high-resolution satellite data to monitor tropical and subtropical forest conversion.

The forces of tropical forest conversion reside in poverty, overpopulation and economic inequities between peoples and countries, international debt included.

Of equal concern to forest-protection NGOs, language ensuring critical safeguards for biodiversity, forest conversion, indigenous rights, and monitoring has moved from operational text.

The rapid loss of habitat due to forest conversion, oil palm plantations, fire and logging is cause for concern.

Widespread urbanisation, agricultural fires and forest conversion for oil palm plantations and other forms of agriculture are the main causes of Malaysia's high deforestation rate.

Therefore, according to this study, forest conversion to agriculture is the main land use change responsible for tropical deforestation.

Given its limited range and the continuing pressures of forest conversion for agriculture and plantation forestry, it is classified as an endangered species.

The degradation of forest ecosystems has also been traced to economic incentives that make forest conversion appear more profitable than forest conservation.

Most forest conversion resulted from agricultural development, leading to predictions that by 2010 70% of the park will be in agriculture.