Oil palm growers’ misdeeds allow an opportunity to save West Papua’s forests

Mongabay
Mar 24, 2021, 10:30 am250 pts
JAKARTA — A government review has identified a massive area of forest in Indonesia’s West Papua province that has been earmarked for oil palm plantations but that can still be saved. Keeping this forested area standing could potentially prevent the release of greenhouse gases equivalent to two-fifths of…

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