BBC Documentaries

The Burning Scar (2020x211)

Uitzenddatum: Nov 21, 2020

Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil, and in the last two decades vast areas of forest have been cleared to make way for plantations. The remote province of Papua, home to Asia's most extensive remaining rainforests has escaped fairly untouched, that is until now. This film investigates how Papua has become the new frontier for aggressive palm oil expansion.