In Indonesia, businessmen have found a way to merge conservation with profit. A 91,000-hectare area in Kalimantan’s Tanjung Puting National Park was maintained as a tropical forest and as an orangutan sanctuary even if it has prime potential to be an oil palm plantation. Its owner Eka Ginting said his company PT Rimba Raya plans to sell the carbon trapped in the preserved forest that would have otherwise been released to the atmosphere if he converted the land for other use. This conserved forest is just one of 240 carbon reduction projects in Indonesia now vying to earn through carbon credits.
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