Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Mongabay
Sep 28, 2021, 9:57 am150 pts
JAKARTA — A new study strengthens the case for redirecting a planned mining road around the largest surviving tract of lowland tropical rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but the company behind the project appears to be staying the course. The study by researchers at James Cook University in…

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