Where is more details on A Plan to Save a Forest From an Unlikely Source?
A slide show titled “A Plan to Save a Forest From an Unlikely Source” can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/30/world/20091130-CLIMATE_index.html This slide show accompanies an article titled “Tree Harvester Offers to Save Indonesian Forest.” An excerpt is below. From nytimes.com: Tree Harvester Offers to Save Indonesian Forest TELUK MERANTI, Indonesia — From the air, the Kampar Peninsula in Indonesia stretches for mile after mile in dense scrub and trees. One of the world’s largest peat swamp forests, it is also one of its biggest vaults of carbon dioxide, a source of potentially lucrative currency as world governments struggle to hammer out a global climate treaty. The vault, though, is leaking. Canals — used legally and illegally — extend from surrounding rivers nearly into the peninsula’s impenetrable core. B
