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18 Anti-Deforestation Activists Arrested in Indonesia

HeadlineNov 30, 2009

In other climate news, Indonesian police arrested eighteen Greenpeace activists on Thursday at a demonstration against the deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The protesters had chained themselves to cranes at a paper mill. Rampant deforestation has made Indonesia the world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind the United States and China.

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