restoration
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Q&A: “Peruvian peatlands should be considered as priorities in any national conservation program for climate change mitigation”
Peruvian peatlands are of huge environmental importance, not only locally but also globally. They not only house enormous stores of…
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The power of peatlands
Peatlands cover only 3-5 per cent of the Earth’s surface, but they store over 30 percent of all soil carbon.…
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Local law and order
On the outskirts of Dompas village in Riau province, a group of men is peeling back the black earth with…
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Rewetting Indonesia’s peatlands
Experts from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) have been working with the local community in Dompas village, Riau…
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Fending off the flames
The land fires that swept through Indonesia in 2015 burned some 2.6 million hectares, with the resulting haze causing health…
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Blue carbon science for sustainable development
Mangrove forests have been recognized for a variety of important functions, such as buffering coastal zones from tropical storms and…
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Mother Nature often knows best
As countries gear up for the “Bonn Challenge” of restoring 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2020,…
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Time to get it together on mitigation and adaptation
To combat climate change, one can avoid it via mitigation, or cope with it via adaptation. Even though these objectives…
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‘Restoration starts on the ground’
Monitoring is the only way to effectively assess the performance of global restoration initiatives, but is not yet receiving the…
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‘Green deserts’ or functional forests?
Natural forests support life in complex ways. Forest ecosystems are habitats for animals and humans, they regulate air quality, temperature…
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The cost of oversimplification
Let’s assume you want to conserve a large, widely-forested watershed by compensating people for not cutting down trees. Would it…
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Nazir Foead: ‘The keyword for us is cooperation’
Nazir Foead is the head of Indonesia’s newly established Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG). The agency was appointed by President Joko…
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What’s in a land title?
The indigenous community of Tres Islas in southeastern Peru seems to have it all—good fishing; a vast forest of timber,…
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Tax amnesty, the green economy and peat restoration
The Indonesian government seeks to collect USD 13 billion from its tax amnesty program this year, says the country’s Finance…
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Reversing deforestation, restoring landscapes
Regional leaders gathered this month in Brunei Darussalam to discuss ways to slow, halt and reverse deforestation in the Asia-Pacific.…
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