Senior principal researcher Alex Cobb says their method 'is a step toward reaching global climate goals while preserving biodiversity and preventing wildfires'
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“Our approach enables planning of restoration and protection measures to do just this . Thus, our method is a step toward reaching global climate goals while preserving biodiversity and preventing wildfires,” said Alex Cobb, the first author and senior principal research scientist at SMART, in an interview with Rappler.
Humans worldwide have drained peatlands for centuries to accommodate agricultural demand, extract peat, produce forestry land, and many others, leading to“Peatland drainage has left them vulnerable to catastrophic fires, with the resulting haze or smog causing widespread harm to human health,” Cobb added. of peatlands, having dried and flammable peat in tropical regions increases the threat of catastrophic fires.
The mounded shape of a raised bog through a colored relief map overlaid on aerial photography based on Lidar data from the Estonian Land Board. The country has two major peatlands: the Leyte Sab-a Basin in Leyte and the Agusan Marsh in Agusan del Sur. Only nine peatlands have been identified in the country, and they continue to be threatened by massive land conversion and fires. , major peatland fires occurred in dry areas of the Leyte Sab-a Basin and Agusan Marsh, with the locals left without early warning signs or the capacity to fight against the fires.
With the size of peatland coverage in Southeast Asia, some countries have claimed progress in their conservation efforts. Indonesia, for example, has allegedly restored almost 3.7 million hectares of peatland as announced by its government. However, The Gecko Project’s
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