Hijacking an Environmental Protection Program
There are signs that a campaign to protect the orangutans in the Batang Toru ecosystem is motivated by business interests. There is an aroma of the trade war between the United States and China.
Tempo
July 17, 2023
NO one can dispute the fact that the construction of the Batang Toru hydropower plant will have an impact on the lives and behavior of the Tapanuli orangutans in North Sumatra. But taking business advantage from the advocacy to protect orangutans besmirches the noble aim of preserving biodiversity.
This is what allegedly happened in the campaign to protect Tapanuli orangutans since 2019. Moreover, at the beginning of this year, a number of media
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