article_snippet.sent: Up to 21 million acres of jungle will be torn down to make way for rubber plantations in the next decade alone, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia.
article_snippet.sent: A scene of devastation captured on Indonesia's Borneo island.
article_snippet.sent: Endangered species in south east Asia at risk .
article_snippet.sent: But the impact of this is a loss of tropical biodiversity.
article_snippet.sent: We predict that between 4.3 and 8.5 million hectares (10.6 - 21 million acres) of new plantations will be required to meet projected demand by 2024.
article_snippet.sent: This will threaten significant areas of Asian forest, including many protected areas.
article_snippet.sent: She said many protected areas have already been lost to rubber plantations - including three-quarters of the Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia, which was cleared for rubber between 2009 and 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Lead researcher Eleanor Warren-Thomas added: ‘In Cambodia, forest areas earmarked for further rubber plantations contain critically endangered water birds like the White Shouldered Ibis, globally threatened mammals like Eld’s deer and Banteng, and many important primates and carnivores.
article_snippet.sent: Macaques and gibbons are known to disappear completely from forests which have been converted to rubber. '
article_snippet.sent: our review shows that numbers of bird, bat and beetle species can decline by up to 75 per cent.
highlights_snippet.sent: Up to 21 million acres of jungle will be torn down in the next decade alone .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: University of East Anglia research says forest species at risk from industry .
  