Belgium-sized swath of forest faces the chop from Indonesian palm oil

Mongabay
May 7, 2021, 7:09 am246 pts
JAKARTA — Indonesia could lose an area of tropical rainforest bigger than Belgium to oil palm plantations over the next three years without existing measures to slow this loss, activists warn. This would negate the government’s own commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070. Indonesia has since…

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