Smoking out the world's lungs

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As you move in under the canopy of trees, clouds of butterflies dart into the path, and the sounds of insects cluster in the air.

But this is no virgin forest. This is a 10-year-old project to rehabilitate an area destroyed by logging.
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According to the conservation organisation Wetlands International, 48% of the country's peatland forest has been deforested, and most of the rest degraded by illegal logging. And that has caused some major problems.
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Rehydrating the peatlands nearby would help stop the fires - and the haze - but it could also put an end to Ratni's home and livelihood.

And it would limit the government's plans for expanding the country's bio-fuels industry.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6354079.stm