Synopsis
Demonstration of the vast scale of deforestation to grow palm oil.
- Programme: Climate Change: The Facts
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Geography | Ecosystems | Tropical rainforest biomes | Deforestation of the rainforest
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