Will there be a change through religion on animal rights?

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9. This has been my concern for a long time

Actually big religions like Christian, Islam, Buddha, Hindu have teachings about loving nature, but as acknowledged by previous posters above this part of the teachings haven't been properly "used" to really make some changes. This is too bad, because in many places in the world religion could be a very strong motivation for people to act.

I live in Indonesia and one of our biggest problems is deforestation especially in Borneo, Sumatra, and Java which leads to the extinction of endangered animals like orangutan, one horned rhino, and tigers, that makes me sick to my stomach. Mostly big companies are eliminating these forests and turn them into oil palm plantations and ironically these are mostly foreign companies.

Islam is the biggest religion here, and in Islam we are thought about 3 kinds of relationships; relationship between human and God, relationship amongst human, and relationship between human and nature. But as far as I concern the religious leaders almost never touch the last, or at least giving enough proportion for that teaching which I think could really make a difference because religion is still a big part of everyone's life in this country.