jueves, 1 de agosto de 2013

Indonesia Burning

También en Indonesia los "beneficios ambientales" de las plantaciones, están poco claros:

New analysis: Sizable area of industrial plantations burned
Fires burning since June in Sumatra have caused air-quality problems in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. In a new analysis, CIFOR scientists studied high-resolution satellite imagery and discovered that in the worst-hit area, 21% of the land surveyed was part of an industrial palm-oil or pulp plantation.

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