{"id":6542,"date":"2017-03-20T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2017-03-20T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:09:13","slug":"orangutan-news-alarms-raised-as-timber-firm-said-to-pierce-orangutan-stronghold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-alarms-raised-as-timber-firm-said-to-pierce-orangutan-stronghold\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News: Alarms Raised as Timber Firm Said to Pierce Orangutan Stronghold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6543\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6543\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/untitled-1.png\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of International Animal Rescue\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/untitled-1.png 768w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/untitled-1-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/untitled-1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of International Animal Rescue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>by <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Basten Gokkon<\/span>\u00a0for Mongabay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia\u2019s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir and biodiversity hotspot home to hundreds of endangered orangutans, say observers who are imploring President Joko Widodo\u2019s administration to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The company, PT Mohairson Pawan Khatulistiwa (MPK), did not respond to numerous requests for comment. But locals report the firm is digging a drainage canal through the peat soil in alleged violation of a moratorium on peatland development\u00a0enshrined by Jokowi, as he is known, into law last December.<\/p>\n<p>Draining peat soil \u2014 a deposit of decaying organic matter that can extend deep below the ground\u2019s surface \u2014 is a prerequisite to planting it with the fast-growing pulpwood species that feed Indonesia\u2019s paper mills, a huge industry in the archipelago country. But the practice dries the soil out, rendering the peat highly flammable. Its widespread usage is the main underlying cause of Indonesia\u2019s annual fires which often reach crisis proportions. In 2015, they sickened half a million people and pumped more carbon into the atmosphere than the entire EU during the same period.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of Mongabay.com and can be read in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2017\/03\/alarms-raised-as-timber-firm-said-to-pierce-one-of-indonesias-last-orangutan-strongholds\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Basten Gokkon\u00a0for Mongabay A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia\u2019s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir and biodiversity hotspot home to hundreds of endangered orangutans, say observers who are imploring President Joko Widodo\u2019s administration to intervene. The company, PT Mohairson Pawan Khatulistiwa (MPK), did not respond to numerous requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-center"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Orangutan News: Alarms Raised as Timber Firm Said to Pierce Orangutan Stronghold - Orangutan Conservancy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-alarms-raised-as-timber-firm-said-to-pierce-orangutan-stronghold\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orangutan News: Alarms Raised as Timber Firm Said to Pierce Orangutan Stronghold - Orangutan Conservancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Basten Gokkon\u00a0for Mongabay A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia\u2019s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir and biodiversity hotspot home to hundreds of endangered orangutans, say observers who are imploring President Joko Widodo\u2019s administration to intervene. 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