Sentences with phrase «peat forests which»

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

Not exact matches

The haze is caused by forest clearing in Indonesia during the annual dry season, particularly when fires are set to clear undergrowth which then spark fires in layers of peat.

When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).

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

He whittled ornate whistles that he rarely blew, detailed animal figurines that he abandoned in the undergrowth, and intricate talismans of celestial design, which he hid in the dimples of maple burls or inside the crevices of the twisted roots that emerged from the forest's peat like tangles of surfacing snakes.

These vast numbers of additional humans cleared forests increasing CO2, mined and burned lots of peat which is a fossil fuel, and increased bovine herds substantially which raises methane levels.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

Last month, Indonesia began to finally detail its plan, which includes a two - year moratorium on new forestry concession on rainforest lands and peat swamps and will be supported over the next five years by a one billion dollar contribution by Norway, under the Scandinavian nation's International Climate and Forests Initiative.

ancillary benefits of preserving biodiversity (i.e. orangutans live in peat forests), watersheds, and other ecosystem services (some of which may also result in payments for landowners in the future)

Greenpeace, which warns of an imminent «climate bomb» due to the destruction of rich forests and peat bogs that currently serve as a massive carbon sink, reports groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and Flora and Fauna International have joined them in calling for an end to the conversion of forests to croplands for the production of biofuels

Boreal forests and peat lands — which often include carbon - containing permafrost — play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and therefore in regulating climate change.7, 15

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.