When peat forests are chopped down and drained dry to plant oil palm, they become a fire risk. - Filepic
An award-winning method for mapping Indonesia’s vast peatlands, developed by Dutch, German and Indonesian scientists, will help Indonesia nation tackle annual fires that harm health in the region.
The International Peat Mapping Team (IPMT) was chosen as the winner of the USD$1 million (RM3.9mil) Indonesian Peat Prize, two-year competition funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and managed by the US-based World Resources Institute (WRI).
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