A fifth of Indonesia’s palm oil sites lie in protected forests, says Greenpeace

Greenpeace says enforcement failures have led to Unesco sites and land mapped as orangutan habitat being turned into plantations

Almost one-fifth of the land used for Indonesian oil palm plantations is located in the country's forest estate, despite a law banning such activity, according to a study by Greenpeace.

The report, produced by Greenpeace and TheTreeMap, describes a catastrophic failure of law enforcement that has allowed swathes of land, including Unesco sites, national parks and areas once mapped as habitat for orangutan and Sumatran tigers, to be turned into oil palm plantations.