Angola's peatlands store ancient carbon (up to 11,000 years old) and regulate freshwater for the entire southern African region, including the Okavango Delta. Agricultural practices like drainage ditching and unregulated fire clearing threaten to release massive amounts of stored carbon, requiring urgent community-based conservation strategies.
Angola's peatlands vastly underestimated, new mapping reveals critical carbon stores
Indigenous Luchazi communities relying on subsistence farming face livelihood pressures as agricultural practices threaten peatland conservation.