Indonesia blocks major artery in haze-causing Mega Rice canal network

Mongabay
Jul 9, 2017, 11:24 pm190 pts
PALANGKARAYA, Indonesia and JAKARTA -- One of the largest drainage canals ever dug through Indonesia’s peat swamps is being blocked in Kalimantan, the archipelago country’s portion of Borneo island, part of President Joko Widodo’s efforts to rewet some 2 million hectares of peat damaged in the great fires…

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