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Peat is made up of partly decomposed vegetation and is formed over centuries in anaerobic, waterlogged conditions. Peat has been on our planet for around 360 million years.

German State Secretary Jocean Flasbarth offers a keynote speech at the 1st Bonn Challenge High-Level Roundtable Meeting in Palembang, Indonesia. He spoke of the importance of the region and the representation of so many from Asia and the world at the meeting. The Bonn Challenge initiative of the German Government to restore degraded lands and […]

By Werner L. Kornexl Over the past decade, commitments and support for Forest Landscape Restoration have grown significantly. As part of the Bonn Challenge, for instance, some 40 countries, sub-national jurisdictions, and non-governmental entities have now pledged to restore forest landscapes across 148 million hectares. Although the environmental benefits in terms of ecosystem services, soil […]

By Deanna Ramsay. Originally posted on Forests News. Indonesia – Tropical peatlands are massive carbon sinks. But what happens when they are depleted of the water that sustains them, or subject to other land-use changes? After fires raged in 2015 over Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia, in part due to the widespread draining of peatlands, […]

By Susan Onyango, originally posted on ICRAF’s Agrofrestry World. Land degradation impacts the health and livelihoods of about 1.5 billion people worldwide. Further, the annual costs associated with land degradation worldwide is estimated to be US$ 231 billion as measured in terms of loss productivity and the costs to due to loss of ecosystems services. Given […]