Publishing the blocks that did not qualify
Trees planted on dry peat do not survive the next fire season. In Central Kalimantan, the programme plants only where the water table allows, and says where it does not.
The peat dome in Central Kalimantan was drained under a development scheme in the 1990s and has burned repeatedly since. Much of it no longer carries forest at all. The obvious response is to plant trees. The programme's answer is to wait.
Vegetation planted on dry peat does not survive the next fire season. So hydrological restoration comes first and revegetation second, and only on blocks where the water table has met a set threshold.
The obvious response is to plant. The programme's answer is to wait.
The blocks that did not qualify
Water table depth is logged continuously and published as a time series, not a single figure. The programme also publishes which blocks did not meet the threshold, and so were not planted.
The mean dry-season water table in the working area is still minus 52 centimetres. That is why this is the landscape where the programme's numbers will move most slowly, and where honest reporting matters most.
