A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Mongabay
May 28, 2019, 3:04 am247 pts
JAMBI, Indonesia — A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm plantations and illegal logging could soon be carved up by a road for coal trucks. The Harapan forest spans 769 square kilometers (300 square miles) in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, and represents 40…

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