Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Mongabay
Mar 4, 2022, 5:33 am241 pts
JAKARTA — Pulpwood and palm oil companies were among the biggest contributors to the loss of a Manhattan-size area of forest in Indonesia’s Papua region in 2021, a new report says. Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs and its own investigations on the ground, Pusaka, an environmental nonprofit, reported…

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