PALM OIL PLANTATION CRIME DRIVES MASSIVE ILLEGAL LOGGING IN INDONESIA

JAKARTA: The clear-cutting of forests to make way for oil palm plantations is driving a wave of illegal logging in Indonesia, fundamentally undermining efforts to bring much-needed reform to the nation’s forestry and timber sectors.

A new report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Permitting Crime: How palm oil expansion drives illegal logging in Indonesia, reveals how a widespread culture of corruption and poor law enforcement is generating a flood of illicit timber as plantations surge into frontier forests.

Read and download Permitting Crime at http://eia-international.org/wp-content/uploads/Permitting-Crime.pdf