Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Mongabay
May 20, 2017, 5:24 am158 pts
The West Kalimantan governor wants to exempt timber firms in the Indonesian province from a national ban on peatland drainage, drawing the ire of green groups who say such a policy shift could spell the end of one of the Bornean orangutan’s last strongholds, the Sungai Putri rainforest. Governor Cornelis, who…

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