Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Mongabay
Mar 26, 2020, 8:11 am212 pts
JAKARTA — Environmental experts have warned of a resurgence in illegal logging in Indonesia after the government declared that wood exports would no longer have to comply with a stringent legality check that took a decade to put in place. Under the new regulation issued by the Ministry of Trade in February,…

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