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Forests in Indonesia's concessions areas being rapidly destroyed

2014-04-11 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Forest clearing within areas zoned for timber, logging, oil palm, and mining accounted for nearly 45 percent of deforestation in Indonesia between 2000 and 2010, finds a new study that examined forest loss within industrial concessions. The research, published in the journal Conservation Letters, used a combination of satellite data and concession data to link specific activities to forest cover change. It found that of the 14.7 million hectares of forest cleared in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi,...

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