Health Impacts of Forest Fires in Sumatra

7 month old twins, Ihsan and Ahsan, are treated by a doctor after they are diagnosed having a respiratory infection due to the air pollution caused by forest fires in Dumai, Riau Province, Indonesia.

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Unique identifier: GP04NXQ

Type: Image

Shoot date: 02/07/2013

Locations: Bengkalis Regency, Dumai, Indonesia, Riau, Southeast Asia, Sumatra

Credit line: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forest Fires in Sumatra

Thousands of peatland fires in Riau, Sumatra - the majority within pulp and palm oil concessions - have caused record-breaking air pollution in Singapore and Malaysia, with the haze extending as far as Thailand. Decades of forest destruction and drainage of peatland by the pulp and palm oil sector – including members of the Roundtable on Sustainable palm oil – have created the conditions for these fires. Greenpeace calls for the RSPO and all pulp and palm oil producers to implement a ban on deforestation and peatland development.

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