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Deforestation in Indonesia Is Double the Government's Official Rate
2014-06-30 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Trees in Indonesia are disappearing at twice the rate reported by the nation's government, according to a new analysis of deforestation rates. The data also suggests that the nation's 2011 regulations to halt deforestation were largely ineffective, the study authors say. Published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change, the study reinforces earlier work and also finds that since much of the nation's easy-to-access lowland forests have already been exploited, developers are increasingly...
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