Asia Pacific
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Nepal’s ecosystems: Aiming for new heights
Nepal is a country of vast extremes, from lowlands and forested plains to mountain ranges, and, of course, the iconic…
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Dayak activist Emmanuela Shinta: ‘We want to be heroes, not victims.’
Stark and competing demands characterize peatlands use management today. While peatlands are important carbon sinks and stocks, millions of farmers…
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The power of science communication
For some residents of South Sumatra, Indonesia, peat is a constant preoccupation. “Life keeps getting harder,” says 53-year-old Maemunah. She…
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Dennis del Castillo of Peruvian Amazon Research Institute: ‘Peatlands are seen as wastelands’
From Peru to the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo to Indonesia, peatlands restoration and management efforts…
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King and Queen of Sweden visit CIFOR’s headquarters in Bogor
Indonesia, Sweden and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) share the vision of a more sustainable world, in which…
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Ann Jeannette Glauber of World Bank: ‘Indonesia’s 2015 fires cost twice as much as tsunami clean-up’
How can sustainable landscape management attract more finance towards sustainable rehabilitation, peatland restoration and conservation? How can we best mobilize…
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Countering the health effects of peat fires
For the past 360 million years, waterlogged land areas of our planet have been covered with the dense decay of…
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Lera Miles of UN Environment: ‘There’s much more peatland there than anyone had ever anticipated’
Will the recent discovery of peat in the Congo Basin be a boon or a liability for global climate change…
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‘Black gold’ for climate mitigation
New tools and new discoveries are drastically altering our existing knowledge of peatlands. Scientists have recently discovered the existence of…
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Guardians of the forest
The sky turned yellow just before the 2015 peatland fires reached their height in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Then it turned dark,…
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Tim Christophersen of UN Environment: ‘Peatlands are one of the least-understood ecosystems.’
With 425 people in attendance in Jakarta — as well as over one thousand views of the event livestream and…
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Event highlights: Global Landscapes Forum – Peatlands Matter
It may seem counter-intuitive to put human interests first when tackling an environmental issue as complex and technical as peatlands.…
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Living in a toxic haze
Peatland fires in Indonesia push scale-topping figures. Kalimantan alone produced greater levels of carbon emissions than the entire European Union…
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People and peat
Deep in the forests of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, the murmur of a paddle sliding through water joins the mesh of…
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Wet and Wild: Indonesian Forest Fires
When fires tore through peatlands in Sumatra, Indonesia, in June 2013, the immediate effects were devastatingly familiar. In just one…
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