Despite moratorium, deforestation surges in Indonesia, now outpacing Brazil

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerJun 29, 2014, 7:04 pm112 pts
Despite a high-level pledge to combat deforestation and a nationwide moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions, deforestation has continued to rise in Indonesia, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. Annual forest loss in the southeast Asian nation is now the highest in the…

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