Research points to a new way to save peatland that benefits communities while preventing forest fires
by , , , and -One of the way to reduce the risk of forest and land fires is to restore (restore) peatlands to at least a wet state.
One of the way to reduce the risk of forest and land fires is to restore (restore) peatlands to at least a wet state.
Until five years ago, Indonesia was considered one of the world's biggest forest loggers. This changed last August when President Joko Widodo enaced a new policy that will permanently cease the issuance of new permit for clearing in natural forests and peatlands. What are the benefits of this policy for Indonesia?
For decades, forest and land fires in Indonesia have been an annual environmental crisis, but the dry conditions caused by the 2015 El Niño made that year’s fire season the worst in twenty years: approximately 2.6 millions hectares of land