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Proposed law could decimate Indonesia's remaining forests

2015-03-14 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A seemingly well-intended law that aims to turn forests over to traditional users could instead lead to large-scale destruction of Indonesia's native ecosystems, warns a prominent conservation biologist. Writing in The Jakara Globe, Erik Meijaard of the Borneo Futures Initiative explores the potential implications of a proposed change to rules governing land tenure in Indonesia. The "joint regulation", issued by several ministries last October, lays out "Procedures for the Settlement of Land Tenure...

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