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Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

4 October 2017
Mongabay
(Land concessions) / Agriculture / Deforestation drivers / Disasters / Disasters and emergency response / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forestry Industry / Forests and forestry / Land / Paper and pulp / Tree plantations
Disasters / Draining peat / Fire alterts / Hulu Sungai subdistrict / Ketapang district / Nazir Foead / Paper and pulp / Regional

A NASA satellite detected 140 hotspots in West Kalimantan on September 12 as smallholders in the province continued to burn land for agriculture, Indonesia’s disaster management agency said on September 13. Data from Global Forest Watch shows the district of Ketapang recorded 144 fire alerts over the ...

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