Peatland protection in Indonesia. A peat swamp forest that was due to be cleared for plantations.

Why Katingan

Peatlands are wetlands: flooded ground such as peat bogs and peat swamps. They store huge amounts of carbon. They also reduce the risk of floods, help keep drinking water safe and give rare wildlife a home. Ecologi’s page says Indonesia has 36% of the world’s tropical peatland, and that it is being destroyed quickly to make way for oil palm and acacia plantations.

The forest at Katingan was heading the same way. There were plans to clear it and turn it into industrial acacia plantations, which would have meant draining the peat. The project was set up to stop that.

How the project cuts emissions

The carbon in this forest built up over a very long time. Cut the trees and drain the peat, and that carbon is released. Fire is a threat as well. So the project cuts emissions mainly by keeping the forest standing and the ground wet.

Ecologi says the project is linked with an average of about 7.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year, counting both the emissions avoided and the carbon the growing forest takes in. CO2e means carbon dioxide equivalent.

• It keeps the forest standing. The land is managed as two ecosystem restoration concessions, in place of the acacia plantations that were planned.
• It re-wets the peat. Canals are blocked so that the peat becomes wet again.
• It prevents fires. The project runs fire prevention work and firefighting teams, and local people are trained in fire response.

Who does the work

Ecologi’s timeline names two project proponents: PT Rimba Makmur Utama, which started the project, and Permian Global.

They work with 39 villages around the forest, home to about 50,000 people. Each community is consulted about its own priorities. The aim is to help people earn a living in ways that do not put more pressure on the forest, alongside wider support for health and education.

Wildlife

This is one of the richest areas of peat swamp forest for wildlife. Ecologi says it holds about 5% of all the Bornean orangutans left in the world, along with the Sunda pangolin, the proboscis monkey and the clouded leopard. Orangutans spread seeds as they move and feed, which helps the forest renew itself.

The project on record

Ecologi lists this project as live and has funded it since 2022. The entries below come from the timeline on its page. Each figure belongs to the date and period shown beside it.

1. November 2010The project starts, begun by PT Rimba Makmur Utama. Its 60-year crediting period runs to October 2070.
2. April 2016The project is validated against the Verified Carbon Standard.
3. July 2016The first monitoring report, covering November 2010 to October 2015, records 12,748,612 tonnes of CO2e in net emission reductions.
4. October 2016First validation and verification under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards.
5. August 2018The auditor ESI confirms Gold Level for climate change adaptation, community benefits and biodiversity benefits.
6. December 2023For 2020 to 2023: 17 canal blocks built, no large fires across 149,800 hectares, 1,380 community members trained in fire response, and 366 people in full-time jobs.
7. April 2026Ecologi reports that BeZero raised its rating of the project from A to AA in 2025.
8. June 2026The seventh monitoring report is published. It reports restoration across 157,875 hectares using 34 canal blocks, higher incomes for 3,987 local people and no forest fires in the project zone.
9. July 2026The auditor AENOR issues its verification report and re-certifies all three Gold Level distinctions.
10. August 2026Ecologi reports that the project protects 56 species classed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
11. September 2026A firefighting skills competition tests 52 staff in nine teams.

157,875hectares of peatland under restoration, as reported in the monitoring report published in June 2026. That report covers the years up to the end of 2023.

How the project is checked

We do not choose or run the projects ourselves. They are selected by Ecologi, and this one carries its “Carbon Project Ecologi Approved” mark.

It is also checked from outside. Ecologi lists it under the Verified Carbon Standard, where it is project 1477 on the Verra registry, and under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard. Auditors have verified its reports, most recently AENOR in July 2026.

What Printlogik has funded here

Ecologi keeps a public record of the projects each of its members has helped to fund. That record names this project among those Printlogik’s contributions have gone to, through the Print A Tree Project. Ecologi does not publish a figure for us project by project, so we cannot tell you how much of the work here was paid for by our orders, and we will not guess. Our total across all the carbon projects we have supported is shown on the Print A Tree page.

Ecologi lists this project as live, but its page says it is not available for new funding at present. Every order we print still makes a contribution through Ecologi, and it goes to the projects Ecologi is funding today.

How your order gets here

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2. We make a contributionEach invoice triggers a contribution from Printlogik to Ecologi.
3. Emissions are cutEcologi funds projects like this one, and records what we have funded in public.

The UN global goals it supports

The United Nations has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer, healthier planet by 2030. Ecologi records this project as supporting 8 of them.

• 1No poverty
• 3Good health and well-being
• 4Quality education
• 6Clean water and sanitation
• 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• 10Reduced inequalities
• 13Climate action
• 15Life on land

Where it is

Katingan District, Indonesia · 2.5°S, 113.2°E

Location	Katingan District, Indonesia
Type of project	Peatland restoration
Run by	PT Rimba Makmur Utama and Permian Global
Status	Live. Ecologi has funded it since 2022, but it is not open for new funding at present
Full record	See it on Ecologi