Authors:
Rosenda Chandra Kasih, Okta Simon, Ma'mun Ansori, Muhammad Porkab Pratama and Fenky Wirada*
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
canal-blocking, rewetting, tropical-peatland
Documentfile:
ipc16p467-471a065kasih.simon_.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
Sebangau National Park is a tropical peat swamp forest previously used for logging activities (illegal and legal) between the 1970s until 2006. Logging activities created the canal networks used for transportation of logs and led to over-drainage in peatland. Two-hundred and seventy three canals were recorded over a total length of 673.486 km in nine locations at the Sebangau National Park. Restoration of degraded peatland area started by rewetting eatland using canal blocking technique in which the dam increases the water table level. This technique was implemented in the Bulan River, Katingan Catchment, southwest of Sebangau National Park. The location of canal…