Photos: Forest fires rage on Sumatra oil palm concessions

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2019, 12:02 pm113 pts
JAMBI, Indonesia — Clouds of haze have blanketed parts of Jambi province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, as slash-and-burn clearing to make way for oil palm plantations rages on. The provincial disaster management agency reported 62 fire hotspots between Aug. 28 and Sept. 4 on farmland and plantation…

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