Protecting Peatlands, Saving Forests

Residents of Sungai Beras village in Jambi have been planting trees in their forests and managing their peatlands with canal blocking for the past few years. All this hard work may have spared them from the 2015 catastrophic forest fires.

November 22, 2016

Safe from Forest Fires

Residents of Sungai Beras village in Jambi have been planting trees in their forests and managing their peatlands with canal blocking for the past few years. All this hard work may have spared them from the 2015 catastrophic forest fires.


ABDUL Hamid spends much of his time inside the forest near the Sungai Beras village in East Tanjung Jabung regency at Jambi province. He often checks on the approximately 1,200 vines of bla

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