Sentences with phrase «peat swamps for»

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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.

As it turns out, the cold water swamps in Ireland called peat bogs are the perfect environment for preserving organic matter and allowing it to safely ferment, improving the nutrient profile and digestibility.

In the early 1900's Soviet engineers drained swamps to supply peat for electrical power stations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Palm swamps, mangroves and peat bogs throughout the tropics are disappearing rapidly as they are drained for fish farming, agriculture and infrastructure development.

«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.

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.