Indonesia Seeks to Halve Forest Fires by 2019
The Indonesian government has launched an ambitious US$2.73 billion plan to cut land and forest fire hotspots by nearly half, in part by protecting peat forests, aiming to ensure that 121,000 sq. km. of land, a fifth of it peat forest, will be fire-free by 2019.
The fires are an annual occurrence, linked to the clearing of forests for logging and monocul…
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