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Forest is a habitat or place to live for the life of various flora and fauna, including humans. Forests are the life support for every creature on earth. Forests for wildlife are very important for their survival, especially for breeding, playing places, looking for food, interacting with other wildlife. Thus, wild animals are very dependent on the existence of the forest they occupy. So you can imagine wild animals suffering from the condition of their forests being damaged by various causes such as illegal logging, forest fires, excessive log harvest or the shrinking of forest land for non-forest needs such as for timber estates, plantations, urban expansion, transportation networks and other infrastructure development. Forest land that is far from human settlements will make wildlife very comfortable living in their habitat, but on the other hand it will be very uncomfortable if it is near settlements. This is something that cannot be avoided because the world's population continues to increase in need of shelter, food, clothing, mobility, etc. which in the end will encourage the change of function from forest to non-forest in the name of national development.