SINGAPORE – Conserving the remaining, nearly intact peatlands and mangroves of South-east Asia – the region’s green lungs – ...

Penang government has identified a total of 449.12ha of peat swamp forests in the island’s southwest district to be gazetted as permanent nature reserves under the National Forestry Act 1984.

Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat swamp forest, where humans get tangled and bogged down, and visibility ...

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 ...

“But in parts of the swamp, we can only get it so wet because we didn’t get rid of roads and ditches entirely.” Restoring wetter peat-loving forests also comes at a cost, stressing out the ...

Protecting and restoring Southeast Asia's peat swamp forests and mangroves could reduce the region's land use carbon emissions by approximately 54%, despite these ecosystems covering only 5.4% of the ...

He said the project has already seen results, having reduced peat swamp forest fires in peninsular Malaysia from 385.2ha in 2020 to 25.2ha last year. “In Selangor and Pahang, peat swamp forest ...