Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and ...
More than 300 forest and peatland fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island caused hazy skies across the region on Monday, prompting government officials to ask people to work from home. The military, ...
In June 2013, WWF released “Palming off a National Park,” a report on illegal encroachment of oil palm plantations into the Tesso Nilo National Park and two adjacent logging forests in Sumatra. In ...