Govt to restore damaged peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, November 18 2015

The government is gearing up to restore as many as 2 million hectares of peatlands destroyed through decades of mismanaged oil palm plantations.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry said on Tuesday that the government had finished mapping the entire peatland ecosystem in Indonesia, which would serve as the base map of the five-year peatland restoration project.
“If we look at Sumatra, we want to look at where the peatland area is. What are their sizes?

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