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Indonesia: Palm Oil Company Fined Millions for Burning Sumatran Forest
2014-01-13 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa peat forest, which lies within Sumatra`s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans can be found living together in the wild. The court ordered the company to pay 114.3 billion rupiah (US$9.4 million) in compensation and 251.7 billion rupiah (US$20.8 million) to restore the affected areas of forest. The case was brought against...
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