Researchers from various institutions conducted a study on bird habitats in the Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu Biosphere Reserve ...

According to the study, restoring currently degraded peat swamp forests and mangroves in Southeast Asia could reduce 94 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) annually. Combined with ...

A simplified map of the Congo Basin peatland: Peat swamp forest (pink); open water (blue); savanna (yellow); other tropical forest (green). Credit: university of leeds WCS works with the Republic ...

Over half of all orangutans in Indonesian Borneo live in peat-swamp forest, with thick peat soils, laid down over thousands of years under extreme waterlogged conditions. But loggers and land ...

Between 2001 and 2022, about 40 per cent of peat swamp forests in South-east Asia in 2000 were lost. By 2017, the annual rate of loss of these forests had been 108,458ha a year, the study found.

Take an even closer look, this time at the soil, and you’ll see the partially decomposed remains of the leaves and woody material of a forest – peat – this was once a boggy swamp. And yet the ground ...