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Keywords
Day
Deforestation
Destruction
Firefighters
Fires
Forest fires
Forests (campaign title)
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Oil palm (plants)
One person
Outdoors
Peatland
Plantations
Smoke
Tropical rainforests
Water
Women
Extinguishing Forest Fires in Riau
A villager tries to douse a smouldering peatland fire which burnt over 30 hectares of land at Selinsing Village, Riau.
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Forest Fires Affected People in Sumatra
Greenpeace bears witness to ongoing forest and peatland fires in and around oil palm plantations in Riau, Sumatra. Greenpeace is urging the Indonesian government to strengthen the draft regulation for total protection of peat ecosystem by implementing strong regulations to protect Indonesia's forest and peatland as a measure to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, as well as mitigate the conditions that lead to forest fires. The shoot includes images of people affected by the fires and of the evacuation center in Tanjung Leban, Riau.
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Unique identifier:
GP0STO97G
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/03/2014
Locations:
Dumai
,
Indonesia
,
Riau
,
Southeast Asia
,
Sumatra
Credit line:
© Andri Tambunan / Greenpeace
Size:
5616px × 3744px 28.04 MB
Latitude:
1°38'53"N
Longitude:
101°41'10"E
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)