Sentences with phrase «peat swamp forest»

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.

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 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.

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.

Peat swamp in Malaysian Borneo Long considered an unproductive hindrance to growth and development, peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia have been systematically cleared, drained and burned away to make...

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

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.

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

Pekanbaru, Sumatra - Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.

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.

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.

Coal deposits are compressed peat swamps that began as dry - land tropical forests.

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