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Illegal wildfires to clear land for palm plantations seen in Indonesia
2013-08-28 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: NASA has released a satellite photo it says shows widespread illegal slash-and-burn fires in Indonesia set deliberately to clear land for palm oil companies. While that kind of agricultural clearing technique has been used for centuries, the setting of such fires is now illegal in Indonesia, but plantation owners are commonly ignoring the law, environmentalists say. "Widespread, illegal burning to clear rainforests and peatlands for palm oil and pulp and paper plantation expansion is unfortunately...
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