In addition, emissions from drainage and fire in forested or deforested peatlands in Southeast Asia were estimated at a mean of 0.8 GtC02/yr (drainage in 2006, fire 1998-2009 (Smith et al., When tree density increases, carbon is removed from the atmosphere by the increasing plant biomass, and soil carbon stocks are protected from erosion and may also increase. The estimated global potential for ‘wide-scale’ restoration of dosed-canopy forest is up to half a billion ha, excluding areas in intensive use (WRI, 2011)®. An additional 1.5 billion ha globally may have the potential for mosaic restoration (WRI, 2011).