Developing Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatlands in Southern Borneo
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £536,096
WHERE Indonesia
Summary
Borneo’s peatlands are important for biodiversity and provide numerous benefits for rural communities, but increasing frequency of wildfires owing to past degradation is destroying forest, damaging human health and causing globally-significant GHG emissions. Peatland protection and restoration is therefore a major conservation priority. This project will improve ecosystem co-management by government and community stakeholders to enable upscaling of impactful restoration actions, effect community-led sustainable management of currently unprotected forests and develop peat-friendly livelihoods which reduce reliance on drainage and burning.
