New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project

Mongabay
Mar 24, 2020, 8:43 am228 pts
This article was co-published with The Gecko Project. A new company has begun clearing rainforest in an area of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province earmarked to become the world’s largest oil palm plantation, in a vast project that has been mired in allegations of lawbreaking. If seen through to…

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