Tag: Peatland
Timber firm accused over Indonesian threat to last orangutan strongholds
By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...
Indonesia environment ministry detects 370 plus forest ‘hotspots’ in West Papua
Indonesia's Environmental Affairs and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya says her ministry's team has found some 370 to 500 "hotspots" of forest fires in the...
