Alarms raised as timber firm said to pierce one of Indonesia’s last orangutan strongholds

Mongabay
Mar 14, 2017, 8:54 am167 pts
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir and biodiversity hotspot home to hundreds of endangered orangutans, say observers who are imploring President Joko Widodo’s administration to intervene. The company, PT Mohairson Pawan…

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