Small-scale farming threatens rainforests in Sumatra

Mongabay
Nov 22, 2016, 8:20 am150 pts
Rainforest cover in the Indonesian archipelago has since declined rapidly in recent years giving way to large-scale plantations of rubber and oil palm. A recent study published in Nature Communications finds that small-scale farming can be just as damaging to biodiversity as the plantations, since most farmers…

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