We Opposed the Opening Peatlands for Farming
Hartono, Chief of Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency, explains peatland and mangrove restoration efforts and their complex challenges. The agency does not support peatland being used for the food estate project.
Abdul Manan
August 22, 2022
BASED on the recently released data of the environment and forestry ministry, 83.43 percent or 20.207 million hectares of the total 24.667-million-hectare peatland ecosystems have been damaged and only 16 percent or around 4.024 million hectares remained pristine. The restoration agency was set up in 2016 to rehabilitate the damaged peatlands. In 2020 the agency was given additional task to also take care of mangrove restoration and its name was
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