RFMRC – SEA Reports: Peatland Fire Problems and Significant Events

Republic of Indonesia

  1. Wetlands on Fire: Statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (2 October 1997, Gland, Switzerland)

Full Text of Ramsar Statement

  1. The peat fires of Southeast Asia: Vital to save peat swamps (by Tan Cheng Li, The Star, 11 November 1997)

http://www.ramsar.org/w.n.star_peat.htm

  1. Proceedings from the International Symposium on Tropical Peatlands (Bogor, Indonesia, 22-23 November 1999) (Overview of downloadable chapters)

http://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/E/indonesia/peat.html

  1. Part 1 with chapter “Chemical compounds in gas emitted from tropical peat soil with burning with and without oxygen” (PDF, 17.4 MB)

http://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/E/indonesia/trpt99_1.pdf

  1. Part 2 with chapter “Aspect and mechanism of peat fire in tropical peatland: A case study in Central Kalimantan, 1997” (PDF, 6.9 MB)

http://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/E/indonesia/trpt99_2.pdf

  1. Hundreds of thousands of people affected by smoke haze from fires in peat swamp forests(Palangkaraya, 27 September 2002)

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/fire-project/fire_up/intro.htm

  1. Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires (Spaceborne investigations of peat fires in Indonesia by the European Space Agency, 6 August 2003)

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMRA7YO4HD_index_0.html

  1. CIFOR Report Peat land management vital to solving Indonesia’s fire problem

CIFOR Report (11 March 2003)

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

  1. Fire Incident Assessment

U Minh Ha Forest and U Minh Thuong National Park

Ca Mau and Kien Giang Provinces, Vietnam

20 April – 26 April 2002

Full Text: http://bit.ly/rfmrcsea_fire_incident_assessment_vietnam.pdf

  1. U Minh Thuong National Park

Kien Giang Province, Vietnam

Regional Technical Workshop

Mekong Protected Areas and Climate Change – Implications for Livelihoods and Development, 8 – 10 October 2014

Bangkok, Thailand

Full Text: http://bit.ly/rfmrcsea_u_minh_thuaong_national_park_kien.pdf

Myanmar

Annual Reports:

GEC’s Annual Report & Yearly Financial Reports

Source Link Website: http://www.gecnet.info/index.cfm

GEC 2016 Annual Report (PDF 1.04 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2015 (PDF 8.76 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2014 (PDF 7.40 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2013 (PDF 7.74 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2012 (PDF 7.33 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2011 (PDF 4.52 MB)

GEC Financial Report 2010 (PDF 4.83 MB)