Top Indonesian official calls out misinformation in environmental campaign

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerMay 20, 2013, 2:23 am14 pts
Indonesia's top REDD+ official confirmed there is no plan to open 1.2 million hectares of forest in Sumatra's Aceh Province, calling into question numbers used by environmentalists in their bid to stop reclassification of the province's forest land.

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