Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Mongabay
Aug 16, 2021, 9:41 am233 pts
JAKARTA — An area of rainforest nearly five times the size of London has been destroyed in the past two decades in Indonesian New Guinea, home to Asia Pacific’s largest area of intact old-growth forest, a new study shows. More swaths of primary rainforest are expected to be cleared, as they stand in areas…

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