In early push into Papua, palm oil firms set stage for massive forest plunder

Mongabay
Jan 3, 2018, 11:53 am353 pts
JAKARTA – The clearing of Indonesia’s last untouched swath of pristine forest has begun in earnest, with an area the size of Washington, D.C., razed for just a single oil palm plantation in Papua province, new data show. Nearly 200 square kilometers (77 square miles) of forest have been cleared in Merauke…

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