SMOKE ON WATER

– Dennis del Castillo, Director, Forest Management and Environmental Service Program, Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP) 6 we are wasting our time because we are losing the opportunity to work together to best manage them. Because of our education, we believe some people are foresters, other people are agronomists, other people are biologists, and other people are fisheries managers … and then we all go in different directions. But when we talk about peatlands, we have to work together to understand each other. Because that’s the only way to understand what peatlands are all about and how to manage them. If we all go in different directions,

6. Interview posted on https://blog.cifor.org/50114/dennis-del-castillo-of- peruvian-amazon-research-institute-peatlands-are-seen-as-wastelands?fnl=en. Accessed 1 August 2017.

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