Green fuel burning up Indonesia’s biodiversity
Synopsis
Indonesia is the largest producer in the world of palm oil, which is used in food, cosmetics, and biofuel, but its production comes with a price. Indonesia’s natural forests are being turned into industrial scale plantations, which disturb the ecosystem by draining the land and polluting the water. This will result in dangerous long–term environmental impacts.
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Length: 2:13
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Watch the video and answer the following questions:
The widespread conversion of forest to man-made plantations in Indonesia has indirectly benefitted the nearby fishing community
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Much of the conversion of forest to plantation in Indonesia is to provide land for the paper and palm oil industries.
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Watch the video and answer the following questions:
The video noted that an important environmental consequence of drying the peatland of Sumatra for the creation of plantations is that the peatland is:
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