Blog Posts: deforestation

Swidden agriculture is part of the livelihood (either fully or partly) for 14 to 34 million rural people in Southeast Asia.

Building a new capital on Borneo may not improve conditions within Jakarta, and will require large infrastructure improvements in the new location. Looking at the variety of data on Resource Watch and Global Forest Watch, we’ve compiled five maps that show issues to consider before moving the capital.

According to data displayed on Global Forest Watch Fires, there have been 66,000 fire alerts in Indonesia from January through the end of September. While this is much lower than fire levels in 2015 — which saw more than 110,000 alerts at the end of September — it far exceeds levels in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

The experience of Dwiki Ridhwan, WRI Indonesia' GIS expert in Riau, who tries to get to know the forest which may be gone in a blink of an eye.

Relocating the capital city could put immense pressure on new areas and might not remedy the flooding and gridlock affecting Jakarta.

According to Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer, Indonesia is the 6th country with the most people exposed to flood, with around 640,000 people every year. What are the main causes and how do we prevent them?

While Indonesia is one of few countries actually reducing its deforestation overall, key provinces are still seeing losses of primary forests and peat.

Indonesia has shown promising results in forest conservation, with temporary bans on expansion of oil palm into forests and peatlands yielding notable reductions in forest loss. Here's how to double down on that success.

This year, for first time ever, we have data on the extent (as of 2001) of tropical humid primary forests, areas of natural, mature forest cover that have not been cleared and regrown in recent history (less than 30-50 years).

Primary or old-growth rainforests store more carbon than other kinds of forests and provide homes for jaguars, orangutans, gorillas and other important species. So the fact that the world lost 3.6 million hectares of these forests in 2018 is a huge problem.