Indonesian palm, pulp companies commit to peatland restoration

Mongabay
Feb 2, 2018, 11:48 am108 pts
JAKARTA — More than a hundred palm oil and pulp companies in Indonesia have pledged to restore a combined area of peat forest the size of the state of Connecticut, in response to government measures to prevent a repeat of the disastrous fires of 2015. Eighty of the companies are palm oil planters and 45 are…

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