The government plans to make the moratorium permanent later this year. Despite the overall decline in deforestation at the national level, several key provinces in Indonesia with primary forests and peatland continued to show increases in forest loss.
The graphic below shows the seven provinces with highest increases. These trees store more carbon than other forests and are irreplaceable when it comes to sustaining biodiversity. Here are three steps the government can take to make sure its positive progress continues. Recent analysis found that protecting the primary forest of Papua, coupled with restoration of degraded lands, could avoid 2.
Expand the moratorium policy by including high-biodiversity forests and degraded forests with high-carbon stocks. In these critical areas, local economic development is a primary consideration. One option to prevent further losses is to include degraded forests controlled by local indigenous people in social forestry projects. These projects can benefit local livelihoods, ensure that non-timber forest products are managed sustainably, and help to safeguard degraded forests.
Aim for higher targets in forest and peatlands restoration. Recently, discussion has shifted from merely stopping deforestation to removing carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. Sophisticated technologies to achieve this, such as carbon capture and storage, could be quite expensive, but natural ecosystems—like tropical forests— are highly efficient, low-cost ways to sequester emitted carbon. But also oil palm prices started to decline around the same time that the expansion of palm oil plantations slowed.
Deforestation in Indonesia did not immediately follow the declining trend of oil palm expansion in In fact, deforestation was at its highest in Conversion to grassland was particularly high after it had been very dry in , which led to higher incidence of forest fires.
Only after , deforestation dropped to levels as low as in The low levels of forest loss in and can at least partly be attributed to wetter years with lower fire incidence. But also enforcement of new and enhanced forest and peatland protection policies in response to the fire crisis seem to have done their part in reducing deforestation. From oil palm plantations were the largest driver.
Source: Austin et al. Also Graveau et al. How will the sector respond to rising palm oil prices? How will the relaxations of forest regulations that occurred in response to the Covid pandemic affect deforestation? This leaves us with the question: What is needed to combat deforestation from palm oil? One solution may be to create rewards for keeping forests standing. But deforestation has escalated sharply since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power and rolled back environmental policies.
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