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New Study Slams Indonesia's Forest Protection

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May 04, 2012
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Indonesia’s tropical forest is being converted to oil palm plantations even faster than was thought, giving rise of the possibility that only 4 percent of forest outside of protected areas will be intact, according to a study by 10 scientists for the US National Academy of Sciences.

The report, available here, completed in March, says that two-thirds of …

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