New Player Begins Clearing Rainforest for World's Largest Palm Oil Plantation

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By MongabayMar 25, 2020, 6:08 pm773 ptsInteresting
A new company has begun clearing rainforest in an area of Indonesia's easternmost Papua province earmarked to become the world's largest oil palm plantation, in a vast project that has been mired in allegations of lawbreaking. If seen through to completion, the Tanah Merah project will generate an estimated $6…

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New Player Begins Clearing Rainforest for World's Largest Palm Oil Plantation

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