Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data

Mongabay
May 5, 2025, 11:38 pm202 ptsTrendingTop
JAKARTA — Researchers have called out the Indonesian government’s claim of having reduced deforestation by 90% over the past decade, pointing to cherry-picked data and a skewed baseline that paint an incomplete picture of the reality on the ground. In a recently published report, Norwegian and Indonesian…

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