RimbaWatch recently highlighted the Department of Environment’s approval of an environmental impact assessment report for a palm oil project in Pahang, which amounts to 8,498 hectares.
This project involves the deforestation of intact natural forests nearly twice the size of Putrajaya and is the largest single palm oil project approved in the peninsula in recent years.
Why is this happening, considering that Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil certification does not allow for deforestation occurring after 2020?
BFM talks to RimbaWatch co-founder Adam Farhan about the major issues related to this project, including how the environmental impact report was approved without there being adequate measures to mitigate the impacts on the area’s ecology and biodiversity.
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