As Storm Ciaran batters the UK, this is how our #peatlandrestoration helps #slowtheflow in high rainfall events, mitigating flooding & protecting communities downstream. Captured during Storm Babet, it shows recently installed stone dams in Swinhope, Weardale.
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Moorland fires devastate wildlife and precious moorland ecosystems. Vegetation can dry out quickly, even after periods of rain. A wildfire will destroy everything in its path, birds, animals and plants. Now is the time when many moorland birds nest on the ground #peatlandmatters
Keep an eye out for helicopters at work on Twizle Head in West Yorkshire this week. After reprofiling and installing stone dam gully blocks, we are airlifting brash to be used as part of our bare peat revegetation works on eroding gully sides. #peatlandmatters
Defiant flowering bog bean, like a candle in the wind over Cors Bodeilio last night.
Any other pictures of these beauties flowering so late into the season?
#WalesPeatlandAction #HighNatureLowCarbon
#PeatlandMatters
The partners have selected 12 representative pilot sites across NWE (eg. lowland bogs), business model types (eg. crop type, credit scheme, etc) and set transnational requirements (pilot duration, C02 sampling methodology, etc) to jointly develop living labs.
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It's time to rewet all peatlands!
#sustainablepeatlands
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Carbon Connects
Broads Authority
Had the great privilege today or being shown round stunning landscape of the New Forest NPA by commoners Lyndsey and Rob Commoning Family . For the eagle eyed that's lowland mire in the background #peatlandmatters Richard Benyon .
Hugely grateful for everyone who contributed to the consultation and who have campaigned to get us here. And to my brilliant team who have done amazing work on this. A really important milestone. Always more to do but good to celebrate this. #peatlandmatters Defra Soils & Peat
It might be the end of the summer holidays but you can still enjoy the last of the juicy #bilberries before autumn arrives. Bilberry is just one of the native moorland species we plant to help stabilise the peat and increase moorland biodiversity. #magicmoors #peatlandmatters
If you work on peatlands, please contribute to this global survey about the needs, challenges & gaps on the sustainable management of peatlands.
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UN Environment Erik Solheim makes a passionate call for the protection of #peatlands in the Congo basin and elsewhere in the world. #peatlandmatters
End of year greetings to all #peatland practitioners out there!
Applying a nature-based solution for #HighNatureLowCarbon
@IUCNPeat #PeatlandMatters #Biodiversity #Carbon
Welsh Government Welsh Government Climate Change Welsh Government Rural Affairs Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales Future Gen Cymru
'If you do not include peatlands in the NDCs, you cannot record or report emission reductions. Get peatlands in NDCs! There is support available.'- Arthur Neher, Wetlands International, urges countries UN Climate Change #COP25
#PeatlandMatters
#TimeForAction
The world’s stock of tropical peat is estimated to be as much as 350 billion tonnes, making a global total of more than 800 billion tonnes – equivalent to 20 years of carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.
#TimeForAction
#Peatlandmatters for #ClimateAction
First day volunteering Moors for the Future
Planting 2800 spaghnum plugs above Goyt Valley, to the song and sight of skylark, curlew and golden plover
Aiming to improve #biodiversity #carboncapture because #peatlandmatters
Mark Cocker PeatFreeApril Bog-trotter Peatland ACTION
We had a great training session in Ondiri Wetland in Kikuyu on the value of peatlands/bogs in preparation of #WorldWetlandsDay on the 02nd of Feb. Safaricom PLC NEMA Kenya Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Kenya Wetlands Forum Thuku Wa Kariuki
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