Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Mongabay
By Lusia ArumingtyasSapariah SaturiAug 18, 2016, 6:00 pm279 pts
set up to prevent a recurrence of last year’s devastating forest and peatland fires is calling for all peat domes in the country to be designated as protected areas. Indonesian law already bans development on peat domes, where carbon-rich peat soil extends deep below the surface. But the country’s vague…

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