Environmental groups warns against logging
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11/02/2002
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International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
Large areas of forest will be destroyed in five years because of logging by Indonesia's two largest pulp producers,environmental groups warned. The Center of International Forestry Research and the World Wide Fund for Nature said a study showed that two pulp producers the Sinar Mas and Raja Garuda Mas groups, planned to clear almost 500000 hectares of forest from Riau Province in Sumatra by 2007.