Indonesia claims record-low deforestation, but accounting raises questions

Mongabay
Jul 18, 2023, 2:17 pm241 pts
JAKARTA — Indonesian officials say the country’s deforestation rate continued to decline for the third year running, hitting a historical low in 2021-2022. But claims of an improving trend are dogged by a long-running controversy over how Indonesia defines forest loss. Data from the Ministry of Environment…

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