In Borneo, I learn, swampland is coveted ... To grow oil palm (Elaesis guineensis) in a peat swamp forest, workers typically drain the land, chop down the trees (which are sold for timber ...

Peat forests are found in parts of Africa and South America, and in large areas of Southeast Asia, especially Borneo and Sumatra. These swamp forests appear in places where dead vegetation becomes ...

Burned peat forest in Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Southeast Asia lost 41% of its peat swamp forests and 7.4% ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely ... often established in swamp forest) may lower water tables, affecting neighboring forest areas. Further, destruction of peat lands increases the ...

Over half of all orangutans in Indonesian Borneo live in peat-swamp forest, with thick peat soils, laid down over thousands of years under extreme waterlogged conditions. But loggers and land ...

In KLNFR, a fragile peat swamp forest in need of restoration, efforts have been underway since 2015 to restore it through rewetting (hydrology management), revegetation (planting trees) and ...

Penang government has identified a total of 449.12ha of peat swamp forests in the island’s southwest district to be gazetted as permanent nature reserves under the National Forestry Act 1984.