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Palm Oil Company Ordered to Pay $30 Million for Illegal Rainforest Destruction
2014-01-16 15:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: An Indonesian court issued a big blow to a palm oil company for illegally destroying forest land in Sumatras protected Leuser Ecosystem, which provides critical habitat for orangutans and other endangered species. In whats being called a groundbreaking verdict, the court found palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large areas of the Tripa peat forest in the province of Aceh and ordered it to pay roughly $30 million in fines. An estimated $20 million was allocated for...
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