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Small-scale farming threatens rainforests in Sumatra

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2016-11-22

Rainforest cover in the Indonesian archipelago has since declined rapidly in recent years giving way to large-scale plantations of rubber and oil palm. A recent study published in Nature Communications finds that small-scale farming can be just as damaging to biodiversity as the plantations, since most farmers prefer profitability over environmental stewardship.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/small-scale-farming-threatens-rainforests-in-sumatra/