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Jakarta Globe: Green activists said on Wednesday that the government’s much-hyped plan for a moratorium on new logging concessions would only apply to forests that were already protected in the first place.
The two-year moratorium on new concessions in peatland and primary forests is part of a bilateral agreement with Norway, in exchange for which Indonesia will receive $1 billion in funding for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD-plus) activities.
In order for the moratorium......
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Environmentalists Say Moratorium on Forest Conversion an Empty Promise
Posted by Jakarta Globe: Fidelis E. Satriastanti on February 21st, 2011
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