A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road
Published on: Tuesday 28 May 2019
JAMBI, Indonesia — A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm plantations and illegal logging could soon be carved up by a road for coal trucks. The Harapan forest spans 769 square kilometers (300 square miles) in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, and represents 20 percent of the remaining […]
News source: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/a-forest-beset-by-oil-palms-logging-now-contends-with-a-coal-trucking-road/
