WEB LINKS
RESOURCES

The International Tropical Peatlands Center focuses on efforts to conserve and sustainably manage peatlands throughout Southeast Asia, the Congo Basin and Peru.

The Center for International Forestry Research is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries.

Wetlands International is a global organisation that works to sustain and restore wetlands and their resources for people and biodiversity. It is an independent, not-for-profit, global organisation, supported by government and NGO membership from around the world.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded in October 1945.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded in October 1945.

ICRAF in Indonesia has been involved in researching issues critical to sustainable national development, such as landscape restoration, enhanced agroforestry systems for improved livelihoods, value chains and markets, environmental service schemes and co-investment, land-use planning for low-emission development, biodiversity conservation, peatland restoration and resolution of conflict over land tenure.

An effort by leading experts and institutions to save peatlands as the world’s largest terrestrial organic carbon stock and to prevent it being emitted into the atmosphere.

 

Government of Indonesia's Forestry Research and Development Agency.

The Government of Indonesia has put in place strict peatlands moratoria and has committed to rewetting and restoring degraded peatlands. A suite of peatland-specific regulations has been introduced and the Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (Badan Restorasi Gambut dan Mangrove, BRGM) has been established as an agency dedicated to improving community fire management and restoring peatland through a program of rewetting, revegetation and revitalization of non-destructive peatland livelihoods.