No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Mongabay
By Cory RogersSep 1, 2016, 6:20 pm259 pts
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ome August in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, it is time for the indigenous Dayak Iban to burn the land and plant the dry rice, or ladang, that will feed them the following year. “If we don’t plant ladang, we don’t eat,” said Apay Hudi, a lithe, silver-haired resident of the Sungai…

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