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In Indonesia, Environmentalists See a Disaster in the Making

2013-10-12 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Near a palm oil plantation here, bulldozers and chainsaws can be heard in what is officially protected forest. The hilly terrain is not ideal for large-scale agriculture, but with few areas left for expansion, the loggers are denuding the land anyway. Aceh, the northern province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is a region made famous by separatist conflict and natural disasters, calamities that long held back economic development but helped preserve one of the worlds richest ecosystems....

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