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Ex-logger leads firefighters defending Indonesia's peatland

Published on 14 Oct 2020 in the Thomson Reuters Foundation News
Many volunteers in Sumatra and Kalimantan struggled last year when faced with overwhelming fires during the long dry season. Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, said the strength of the MPAs is the grassroots support they enjoy. “The weakness is they don’t have sufficient budget or a clear programme to implement fire prevention and suppression,” he added.
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