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Huge Borneo forest tracts remain vulnerable to clearing: study

Jakarta : Indonesia | Oct 08, 2012 at 1:11 PM PDT
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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Alamy Expanding palm-oil production is driving rain-forest destruction in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, also known as Kalimantan, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. The area converted to palm oil increased 35-fold between 1990 and 2010, with 90... FULL ARTICLE AT Sydney Morning Herald
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