That’s because the swamp, with all its peat and trembling earth, is a massive carbon sink. In some places, the peat is 15 feet thick. Recent studies show that in addition to being home to ...

As such, the broad, shallow, slow flowing streams which produce the conditions necessary for the formation of peat depositions, are unusual on sandstone sediments. Also, the highly erodible nature of ...

New Forests, a Sydney-headquartered real assets investment manager, is investing in conserving and restoring the Kuan Kreng Landscape (KKL) in Thailand, which holds the country’s second largest peat ...

New Forests, a Sydney-headquartered real assets investment manager, is investing in conserving and restoring the Kuan Kreng Landscape ( KKL ) in Thailand, which holds the country’s second largest peat ...

Regularly flooded peat swamp forests contain so much carbon because waterlogging slows the decay of dead plants. This partially decomposed material builds up over thousands of years to form peat.

He said peat swamp forest fires reported in 2020 in Selangor and Pahang, totalling 160 and 171.7 hectares respectively, were also reduced to only 6.9 hectares and 2.1 hectares last year. Nik Nazmi ...

A case in point is Kampung Bukit Belimbing here where some of the villagers plant and tend saplings of seven species of peat swamp forest trees in a 0.1-hectare nursery for the purpose of replanting ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said today he is probing the allegation that the Department of Environment had greenlit a ...