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Malaysian Government Appears to Pull Back on Plans for Palm Oil Development in the Amazon. |
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 14:42 |
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The Malaysian government's federal land agency (FELDA) is now denying its well-documented plan to develop oil palm plantations in the Amazon rainforest, reports Ecological Internet, a forest advocacy group that carried out a campaign against the project.
"In a positive yet puzzling development, a spokesperson for the Malaysian government's federal land agency (FELDA) now denies plan for Malaysian government controlled oil palm development in the heart of the Amazon ever existed," Glen Barry, founder of Ecological Internet and organizer of the campaign, wrote via email. "Wan Zaleha Wan Embong, from FELDA's Public Relations Department, has been responding to our network's protest emails, disavowing the plans."
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