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Chart: Peatland loss in Indonesia and Malaysia
Graph: Change in peatland cover in Indonesia and Malaysia between 2000 and 2010. Background satellite image courtesy of Microsoft/Bing Maps and NASA, design by mongabay.com. Click image to enlarge.

This peat forest cover data is from Miettinen et al 2011



Change in peat cover for Indonesia and Malaysia, 2000-2010


20002010Change 2000–2010
1000 ha%1000 ha%1000 ha%%/yr
Peninsular Malaysia2872.22351.8-52-18.0-2.0
Sumatra31317.218394.2-1292-41.3-5.2
Borneo41825.731444.3-1038-24.8-2.8
Java0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Sulawesi0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
New Guinea633617.0597016.0-366-5.8-0.6
Sabah, Sarawak, and Brunei943438-505-53.6%-5.4%
Kalimantan32392706-533-16.5%-1.6%
Indonesia127406.9105415.7-2199-17.3-1.9
Malaysia12303.76732.0-557-45.3-5.9
Total study area139706.4112145.1-2756-19.7-2.2



CITATION: Jukka Miettinen, Chenghua Shi and Soo Chin Liew. Deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2010. Global Change Biology (2011) 17, 2261–2270, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02398.x



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