Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

JAKARTA — Deforestation associated with oil palm cultivation has declined in recent years in Indonesia, but in a biodiversity haven at the northern tip of Sumatra, the forest is being cleared at record pace, a report shows. Using Sentinel-2 and Planet/NICFI satellite imagery, forest loss monitoring platform TheTreeMap found that the Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve […]