The Environment and Forestry Ministry stated that wetlands play an important role in supporting biodiversity conservation.
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Learn the results of MCC’s Indonesia GP Project’s portfolio of peatland management grants, which aimed to improve community livelihoods and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
JAKARTA In 2019, fires raged through Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands, sparked by the deliberate burning of land for agriculture, and fanned by an El Niño system bringing drier-than-usual weather conditions. Ultimately, the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry would put the total affected area at 1.64 million hectares (4.05 million acres), an area half […]