Western peatland management standards not suitable in Indonesia: researcher
The world’s two largest palm oil producers, Indonesia and Malaysia, should not follow European standards of peatland management due to the different climate and land characteristics of the two continents, a researcher has said.
According to Lulie Melling, a researcher at Tropical Peat Research Laboratory, most peatland in Europe was mild shallow-peatland, consisting of low vegetation such as grasses with short roots and branches.
