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Palm oil and rainforest deforestation in Indonesia

"Indonesia is the world’s third largest emitter of carbon after China and the US" reports Rhett A. Buttler in another article at Mongabay.com highlighting on-going pressure on the last tropical forests and peatlands swamps of South-East Asia. Who's next ?

Mangrove from Southeast Asia and palm oil plantation.
  Photo courtesy of Emily Swaine.