“BELOW THE DETECTION LIMIT”
From January to July this year, fires burned around 202,000ha of Indonesian land, about a third of the amount over the same period in 2015, said Nisa Novita of the environmental group YKAN, which helps communities tackle fires.
“However, August data are estimated to show a significant increase of around 600,000ha, particularly in Kalimantan, Sumatra and South Papua,” she said.
Indonesia lost a total of 2.6 million ha to fire in the whole of 2015, an area bigger than Wales.
The number of recorded hotspots from Aug 1 to Sep 8 reached 13,443, compared to 9,454 over the same period of 2015, according to Indonesian forest…
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