Indonesia forest fires: has this Sumatran village got the solution? #palmoil
The small village of Dosan has not recorded a single fire since 2012, despite being surrounded by palm oil plantationsFires have returned once again to the forests and peatlands of Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The annual environmental disaster devastates millions of hectares (pdf) in the archipelago and has been linked to the clearing of forest and peatland for oil palm and paper pulp plantations.Last year south-east Asia experienced one of the worst forest fire outbreaks i
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