Sentences with phrase «peat swamps»

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 central Kalimantan district of Katingan still contains large areas of peat swamp forest.

Campaign run by a coalition of environmentalists opposing the conversion of Tripa peat swamp for Kallista Alam's oil palm plantation.

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.

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.

The decision by the CDM Executive Board now removes one incentive from peatland conversion, although developers — especially in Indonesia — are still targeting peat swamps for expansion.

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 Niño year when fires released some 2 billion tons of carbon from peat swamps alone in Indonesia, emissions are more than twice that.

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

Now I got peat swamp fossils running my TV.

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.

(04/03/2012) Environmentalists were handed a set back in a dispute over a palm oil plantation granted in a protected peat swamp that is home to a population of critically endangered orangutans, reports the Aceh Globe and the Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

FFI is also developing carbon conservation projects in the Sungai Putri peat swamp in West Kalimantan (60,000 ha) and Papua, on the island of New Guinea (250,000 ha) as well as a separate community forest project in West Kalimantan (30,000 - 50,000 ha).

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.

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

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

Banner image: Cleared land is seen at an oil palm plantation belonging to PT Kallista Alam in the Tripa peat swamp, in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2012.

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...

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.

Its peat swamps are considered a significant carbon sink for the planet, but have in at least two instances in recent history become a carbon source due to draining and fires.

Species: The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) Habitat: Riverine forests, peat swamps and mangrove swamps of Borneo

Fraser Island has been two million years in the making and combines mangrove forests, wallum heath and peat swamps, eucalyptus woodland, sand dunes, coastal heaths and rainforests into an area just 1840 km squared.

Nearly half of the forests lost were peat swamp forests, which store huge amounts of carbon and help protect against floods.

The study found that in central Sumatra's Riau Province nearly 10.5 million acres of tropical forests and peat swamp have been cleared in the last 25 years.

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.

Indonesia's peat swamps worth $ 39B / year (7/11/2007) Indonesia's peat swamps are worth $ 39 billion in carbon credits per year, according to rough calculations by Bloomberg.

The destruction and degradation of peat swamps is estimated to release 2 billion tons of carbon — about 8 percent of global emissions — each year, according to Wetlands International.

Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah officially revoked the business permit for a company developing a controversial oil palm plantation in a peat swamp in Sumatra, concluding a case that had tested Indonesia's commitment to a moratorium on new concessions in peatlands and rainforests.

«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.

Malaysia lost a staggering 45.3 percent of its peat swamp forests during the decade.

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.