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$1m for devising best way to map Indonesias peatlands

2016-03-05 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Want to make a million dollars? Find the most efficient way to map Indonesias peatlands. Thats the ticket to winning the Indonesian Peat Prize, announced by the cartographically challenged Southeast Asian country last month. The competition will establish a national standard for mapping peatland extent and thickness, a process deemed essential to stopping the annual forest and peat fires which grow more devastating by the year. Last dry season, they burned an area the size of Rwanda, afflicted...

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