Rerouting a major Indonesian mining road to spare nature and reduce development costs
Abstract Road‐infrastructure projects are expanding rapidly worldwide while penetrating into previously undisturbed forests. In Sumatra, Indonesia, a planned 88‐km‐long mining road for transporting coal would imperil the Harapan Forest, the island's largest surviving tract of lowland rainforest...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021-11-01
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Series: | Conservation Science and Practice |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.521 |