Can Ecotourism Save Indonesia’s Disappearing Forests?

EnvironmentSoutheast Asia

By Gemima Harvey

Indonesia’s forests are being destroyed. Ecotourism may offer one way to protect them.

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  1. H. Tobing, hardly just Indonesians are to blame. In fact, the local people are usually the victims of corrupt foreign interests and a relatively small number of priveleged Indon...
    Luke
  2. H. Tobing, I believe it is a Canadian company that is pushing to get the 1.2 million hectares of Aceh opened. If they succeed it will be the ecological crime of the century. 
    Greg McCann

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