Children in Riau

Children pose for photograph in the Segamai Village, Pelalawan District, Riau.
The area surrounding the villages of Segamai and Serapung is the first intact forest in Riau Province (an area of 4,000 hectares) to be recognized and protected by the Indonesian government under a 'Forest Village' scheme, which places management under the local community.

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Unique identifier: GP04PMU

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/07/2013

Locations: Indonesia, Pelalawan Regency, Riau, Southeast Asia, Sumatra

Credit line: © FB Anggoro / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Forest Community Solutions in Indonesia

Greenpeace together with other environmental NGOs Jikalahari and Yayasan Mitra Insani, welcomed the first government permit granted to a forest community, which will protect 4,000 hectares of land on peat forest landscape of the Kampar peninsula, Riau, from deforestation. Deforestation on peatland has been one of the driving factors behind the region’s ‘haze wave’, and whose protection is critical to stopping the forest fires from reoccurring.

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