Sentences with phrase «of peat swamp»

The large variability of peat swamp composition means that since 2008, peat depth samples have been measured at over 141 sites in total.

10 % of global CO2 emissions result from swamp destruction December 10, 2007 More than 10 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions result from the degradation and destruction of peat swamps, reports the first comprehensive global assessment on the links between peatland degradation and climate change.

In Indonesia, for example, where oil palm covers approximately 10.5 million hectares of land, companies have vowed to halt deforestation and the draining of peat swamps, thereby certifying their products as not having contributed to the destruction of forests or increased greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

In the tropics, where swamp forests are filled with large, leafy trees, blankets of peat are typically built up by decayed woody plants.

The peat swamp frog (Limnonectes malesianus) is just one of the declining species threatened due to deforestation.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

The researchers from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment (DPIPWE) and the University of Tasmania made the discovery during a survey of peat - bound karstic wetlands — an unusual type of swamp which occurs only in peaty soils underlain by limestone and similar carbonate rocks.

Most of the world's wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests.

As part of this, APP will suspend the excavation of canals that are typically used to drain peat swamps.

North Carolina's Albemarle - Pamlico peninsula is a patchwork of peat soils called pocosins (Algonquin for «swamp on a hill»), thick deposits of decomposed plant matter that store high amounts of carbon.

In contrast, RED would be more effective in terms of its conservation impact if payments were extended to all remaining carbon - rich tropical forests, including lowland peat swamp forests, the preferred habitat for dense populations of orangutans, and if the construction of new roads was halted.

Large reserves of peat make up a large portion of the soil, swamps and bogs in the northern reaches of the globe.

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

Photo Credit: Two members of Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari walk through the bush at the healthy part of Tripa peat swamp forest in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia, October 1, 2012.

The report describes the Leuser Ecosystem as «a rich and verdant expanse of intact tropical lowland rainforests, cloud draped mountains and steamy peat swamps.

While they cover only 6 percent of the world's surface, wetlands — marshes, peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river floodplains — are estimated to hold 771 gigatons of greenhouse gases, or 10 - 20 percent of the globe's terrestrial carbon.

To illustrate the economic potential of carbon credits versus oil - palm, we compared the net present value (NPV) of a standard 1,000 - hectare sawit kelapa plantation to a 1,000 - hectare peat swamp preserved for its carbon value.

Tropical deforestation releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, though in some years, like the 1997 - 1998 el Nino year when fires released some 2 billion tons of carbon from peat swamps alone in Indonesia, emissions are more than twice that.

Energy Coal - remains of plants that have undergone carbonization Occurs when partially decomposed plant material is buried in swamp mud and becomes peat.

After a long - standing campaign by environmentalists and local communities, the Indonesian government investigated an oil palm concession under development by PT Kallista Alam in Tripa peat swamp on the island of Sumatra.

Tropical wetlands, including palm swamps and mangroves, are important carbon sinks, but as much as 80 percent of that carbon is stored in a submerged layer of peat.

«This would explain why there's not much fossil record of plants at the end - Permian — for instance, there are no peat swamps forming, no coal - forming whatsoever.

Muddy mangrove swamps hold onto as much 25 % of the carbon stored in similarly threatened tropical peat lands - despite covering a much smaller area.

Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs.

Fauna and Flora International (FFI) said that Sinar Mas and First Borneo Group are involved in the West Kalimantan project, which is based in a 90,000 - hectare tract of carbon - dense peat swamp forest in Kupuas Hulu.

When large areas of peat - accumulating swamps are buried, additional carbon is trapped and forms coal.

When peat swamps are drained, converted, and burned, large quantities of stored carbon are released into the atmosphere.

«Forest degradation» activities, such as selective logging, and drainage of carbon - rich peat swamps are also significant emissions sources.

The draining of carbon - rich peat swamps, rendering them highly combustible, also serves to accelerate the spread of fires and intensifies the burning and haze.

Their track record is mixed, and critics argue that the standards they set are «low and ambiguous», not binding, and that market transformation becomes too industry - friendly or, in the case of Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, are not even worthy of being called «sustainable» as they do not effectively protect secondary areas and peat swamps from the risk of deforestation.