Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Indonesia still planning to press ahead with forest destruction for palm oil plantations
A report from Friends of the Earth today which contradicts earlier optimism - there are still current plans to create three million hectares' worth of palm oil plantations on Borneo. And it seems that the "mega project" of palm oil plantation creation along the Indonesian/Malaysian border is not actually abandoned after all ... read about it here. http://www.foe.org.uk/resource/press_releases/demand_for_palm_oil_trigge_12042006.html