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INDONESIA’S LEUSER ECOSYSTEM, A TREASURE TROVE OF BIODIVERSITY THREATENED BY PALM OIL

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Equal Times

Publication Date
2016-11-21

Iep Diah still misses the forests that used to cover the gentle hills near her home in the district of Aceh Tamiang, in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. “There used to be hundreds of different trees here,” recalls this 40-year-old woman. Today, however, only one can be seen on those very same hills: the oil palm tree.

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https://www.equaltimes.org/indonesia-s-leuser-ecosystem-a?lang=en#.WDL-e_krKUk