Dozens of logs stand in a canal of the Sebangau National Park. Hundreds of bags of sand pile up along the rows of wood. As a consequence, water that would flow through the 9meterwide canal is checked. This is a simple dam made by the National Park Office in Central Kalimantan province.

This dam—like 16 other wooden dams in 16 other canals—has saved the 568,700hectare National Park from the threat of fire. For four years Sebangau was perennia