Indonesian Wetlands
Top Stories
Feature
- 21 Oct 2015
Measurements of particles and toxic gases in smoke in fire-ravaged Kalimantan show the health hazards may be even worse than feared.
About
26 Results found. From 1997 - 2015
Most recent
News
- 2 Feb 2016
Coastal blue carbon from planted mangroves holds promise
Mangrove plantations in the Mekong Delta store just as much carbon as ones that regenerate naturally, research suggests.
News
- 1 Feb 2016
Rising tides: Will mangroves keep up as sea levels climb?
Ahead of World Wetlands Day, research shows how protecting mangroves can mitigate sea level rise – while also helping them adapt to its effects.
Feature
- 13 Nov 2015
Work to avoid further fires starts now
Indonesia risks another round of forest and land fires, but they can be prevented with long-term solutions and political will.
Video
- 13 Nov 2015
Beyond the blaze: What next for Indonesia’s forests?
The worst of Indonesia's 2015 fires appear to be over, but work must continue to prevent another crisis in coming months.
Video
- 13 Nov 2015
Beyond the blaze: What next for Indonesia’s forests?
Feature
- 29 Oct 2015
Indonesia on fire again … and again?
The fires in Indonesia have made global headlines—but this is a decades-old, recurring problem that needs long-term solutions.
Feature
- 29 Oct 2015
Indonesia on fire again … and again?
Analysis
- 26 Aug 2015
Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions
Indonesia can stamp out forest and land fires, but it will take some serious action.
Fact File
- 25 Aug 2015
Q&A on fires and haze in Southeast Asia
As El Niño stirs up more fires in Indonesia, we look at the facts from last year's haze crisis in Singapore.
Fact File
- 25 Aug 2015
Q&A on fires and haze in Southeast Asia
News
- 28 Jul 2015
Indonesia’s best hope for slowing climate change
Indonesian mangroves store some 3.14 billion tonnes of carbon – so preserving them could help the country slash emissions.
News
- 28 Jul 2015
Indonesia’s best hope for slowing climate change
Infographic
- 28 Jul 2015
Millions of reasons to love mangroves
A whole lot of reasons why preserving mangroves makes a whole lot of sense
Infographic
- 28 Jul 2015
Millions of reasons to love mangroves
Video
- 11 Feb 2015
To protect wetlands, reach for your toolbox
CIFOR has released a new suite of tools to help those protecting vulnerable coastal forests.
Video
- 11 Feb 2015
To protect wetlands, reach for your toolbox
Infographic
- 3 Feb 2015
Tropical wetlands: A disappearing act
Indonesia loses an area of mangrove forest the size of New York City every 18 months.
Infographic
- 3 Feb 2015
Tropical wetlands: A disappearing act
Features
News
- 14 Jan 2015
More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.
Most popular
-
1Event Coverage - 23 Jul 2012
-
2News - 16 Feb 2017
-
3Analysis - 18 Sep 2017
-
4News - 31 Aug 2017
-
5Fact File - 3 Sep 2014
-
6News - 21 Aug 2017
-
7Interview - 28 Aug 2017
-
8Event Coverage - 13 Sep 2017
-
9Photo Essay - 24 Aug 2017
-
10Analysis - 3 Aug 2017
CIFOR advances human well-being, equity and environmental integrity by conducting innovative research, developing partners’ capacity, and actively engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to inform policies and practices that affect forests and people. CIFOR is a CGIAR Research Center, and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). Our headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, with offices in Nairobi, Kenya, Yaounde, Cameroon, and Lima, Peru.
The views expressed in Forests News are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the Center for International Forestry Research.
This site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).