Palm Oil Expansion Won’t Deforest: Indonesian President

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By Syndicated ContentJan 5, 2025, 7:31 pm78 pts
This article by Hans Nicholas Jong originally appeared in Mongabay. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has called for the expansion of oil palm plantations, saying any criticism that this will cause deforestation is nonsense because oil palms are trees too. The remarks have prompted criticism that they go…

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