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Tue 06 Jun 2009Indonesia's failure to protect rain forests criticised
INDONESIAN PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been strongly criticised by Greenpeace for his government’s failure to halt deforestation and deliberately lit fires in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra.
The environmental group said yesterday that the continuing destruction of forests in Indonesia was releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and destroying the habitats of endangered species such as the orang-utan and Sumatran tiger.
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