Money to burn: Study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work

Mongabay
Dec 2, 2020, 11:14 pm205 pts
JAKARTA — Paying village in Indonesia to ensure they don’t burn their land for farming appears to have little to no effect on reducing fires, researchers have found. The implication is that without an alternative land-clearing method that’s cheaper, the use of fires to clear land may continue to be widely…

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