‘80% of Indonesian rainforest vulnerable to palm oil destruction is not protected’
28 August 2020
16:18
More than 80 percent of the Indonesian rainforest, mangroves and peatlands most vulnerable to being cleared for palm oil production is completely unprotected by the country’s Forest Moratorium, according to new research.
In a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, a team of experts at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food, Grantham Center for Sustainable Futures and the National University of Singapore developed a model to explain and predict the expansion of oil palm plantations.
