Mapping Indonesia’s fires and logging rights - Ecoclimax
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Indonesia’s swampy peatlands are an important carbon sink holding an estimated 60 gigatons of CO2 – equivalent to more than six years of global emissions from fossil fuels.
Following the extensive 2015 forest fires – which cost Indonesia an estimated US$16.1 billion – Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced new plans to restore the land and prevent further fires.
In an average year landscape fires cause an estimated 110,000 premature deaths across southeast Asia – and 2015’s fires were much worse than the years used to model those impacts.
The fires were partly fuelled by forest clearance and peatland drainage by palm oil and pulpwood companies.
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