Damming Activity in Kalimantan

Longgena Ginting, Country Director of Greenpeace Indonesia helps carry a sand bag they use to block a canal draining peatlands for plantations in Paduran Village, Sebangau Sub-district, Pulang Pisau Regency, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia. The province was the epicentre of Indonesia’s 2015 forest fires disaster.
Indonesia's peatlands cover just over 21 million hectares an area smaller than the UK. Yet this small area stores 57GtC, equivalent to more than 6 years of global emissions from fossil fuels. Peatland drainage causes emissions, leads to fires, and compromises communities.

Unique identifier: GP0STPHNV

Type: Image

Shoot date: 03/12/2015

Locations: Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Paduran, Sebangau National Park, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Ardiles Rante / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Damming Activity in Central Kalimantan

The direct action to restore peatlands is being carried out by the local community along with Greenpeace and local organisations Save our Borneo and the Center for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP) at the University of Palangka Raya.

Forest and peatland destruction, mainly for plantations, is both a major cause of forest fires and the source of Indonesia’s largest contribution to climate change. Greenpeace calls on the Indonesian government and CEOs of big palm oil and paper companies to work together to ban trade with any company that continues to drain peatlands and destroy forests.

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