In addition to the carbon currently stored in a tropical peat swamp forest, one hectare of healthy peatland sequesters an additional 0.5 – 1 metric tons of carbon per year.

Raja Musa is part of the North Selangor Peat Forest Swamp, one of the largest protected areas of peat swamp forest in Malaysia. At about 73,000 hectares, the swamp is roughly the size of Singapore.

PEKAN: The state government will do all it can to ensure that its 230,600ha of peat swamp forest, the biggest in Asia, stayed intact and unspoiled despite development in Pahang.

Lowland tropical peat swamps are formed from layers of woody debris too waterlogged to fully decompose. Slowly deposited over thousands of years, the carbon-rich peat strata have been known to ...

Natural peat swamp forest acts as a carbon sink accumulating at least 2.6 t ha-1 CO 2 e yr-1 as a consequence of tree growth and peat accumulation.

A peat swamp forest burns in Palangka Raya, Borneo in September 2015. Photo by Björn Vaughn A scan of a peat core shows how dead plant material becomes densely compacted over the many thousands ...

Encroachers have been clearing forest at three locations in Aceh’s biggest peat swamp since February, analysis of Landsat satellite imagery by environmental group Greenomics-Indonesia shows. The ...

Some 130 volunteers turned up at the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) in Kuala Langat, Selangor, to plant 600 trees to help restore peat swamp forest and make a difference for future ...

On July 11, a group of journalists participated in a tree-planting programme at HSRM. About 100 saplings from the Kampung Bukit Belimbing nursery were transferred to the forest reserve for the one-day ...