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A major concern: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo

2016-09-10 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Borneo, home to animals like orangutans, rhinos, elephants, and proboscis monkeys is also host to some of the fastest plantation expansion in the world. Now, a new study published yesterday in Nature examines how much of this expansion has been happening at the expense of primary forest. It finds that plantations in Indonesian Borneo have historically driven less deforestation than researchers expected but this seems to be changing. Borneo is the planets third-largest island, demarcated by three...

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