Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Mongabay
Aug 16, 2022, 2:23 pm145 pts
JAKARTA — Smallholder farmers in Sumatra who cultivate oil palms are more likely to expand their farms into carbon-rich peat forests the closer they are to roads and palm oil mills, a new study finds. The study by researchers from the University of Maryland in the U.S. and Nanyang Technological University in…

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