The World Bank has a program under which nations can apply for sizable grants in return for reduced logging of environmentally sensitive forests. Now there are charges of corruption.
Peat-swamp forest in Indonesia is burned to make way for palm oil plantations, 07/04/10. (photo: John Novis/AFP/Getty Images)





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we are caretakers of the planet and are doing nothing to better the environment for our children to inherit, it's our inheritance we are messing with here and nothing is being done to nurture nature.
greed is killing us all.
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