July 23rd, 2009
photo: Marufish via flickr
Hopefully you’re aware of the astonishingly high rate of deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia — due in large part to logging and conversion of land to plantation agriculture. In Malaysia, 82% of remaining forest cover is managed in special protected reserves, which allow selective logging. Which doesn’t sound so bad, until you learn t…
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