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New York Times: An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in Malaysia.
Malaysia is cutting down forests at more than triple the average rate of the rest of Asia, with the destruction concentrated in the highly biodiverse peatland forests on the island of Borneo, a new analysis of satellite data reveals.
Roughly 10 percent of forests in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo were cleared in just the past five years, according to the analysis, which was commissioned by Wetlands......
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Malaysian Forest Ebbing at Rapid Rate, Report Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
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