In cooperation with the Embassies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, NABU is excited to announce the photo exhibition ‘Restoring Peatlands for Climate’. The exhibition showcases the beauty of the northern European peatlands and introduces you to the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of peatlands, as well as to the restoration areas from the LIFE Peat Restore … read more
NABU in cooperation with the Barnim District Administration is hosting the LIFE Peat Restore photo exhibition: ‘Restoring Peatlands for Climate’. The exhibition highlights the beauty of the northern European peatlands and presents their biodiversity and ecosystem functions, as well as to the restoration works by the LIFE Peat Restore project, extending over five countries. Everyone … read more
On June 13–14, 2019, the Academic Centre for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia hosted an international conference organised by LIFE Restore project under LIFE Climate Action programme. The conference was dedicated to responsible and sustainable management of peatlands and attracted more than 150 participants from various organisations (governmental institutions, peat industry, NGOs, research … read more
On May 2019, LIFE Peat Restore presented a poster at the Annual Convention of the International Peatland Society, about specific peat forming vegetation techniques implemented on bare peat surfaces and water bodies. An important aspect of LIFE Peat Restore is to test various methods of establishing peat forming vegetation on peatland areas that have been … read more
On May 16, 2019, the International Plant Protection Day was celebrated at the Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia, Riga. Traditionally, this day attracts visitors with excursions, as well as workshops and open-air labs guided and supervised by scientists and experts of various fields. This approach provides different scopes to explore the world of … read more
On March 8, 2019, an international transportable photo exhibition “Restoring peatlands for climate” will be opened in Riga, Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia. The exhibition was prepared by the LIFE Peat Restore project team in University of Latvia in close collaboration with LIFE Peat Restore partners in four other project countries, Estonia, Lithuania, … read more
LIFE Peat Restore made great progress in 2018. Vegetation and hydrological monitoring has been established on all project sites, including the instalment of automatic water loggers and wells to measure water levels on monitoring plots. The data from monitoring is a key component for the calculations of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as the … read more
SER Europe conferences are held every two years in different cities of European countries. This time it was held in Reykjavík, Iceland. These conferences are dedicated to ecological restoration in different fields – peatlands and other habitats, and plant and animal species. The focus of the SER Europe 2018 was on the goals and methods … read more
On 10 October 2018, Latvian Television aired a broadcast dedicated to peatland ecosystems. This was a series within a popular science broadcast called Impulse of Discovery (Izziņas impulss in Latvian). In the broadcast, the role of peatlands in regulating flooding and climate by sequestering greenhouse gases (GHG) was explained, as well as the conflicting nature … read more
Since 2005, European Researchers’ Night has been organized on every last Friday of September. This year, on September 28, the event was hosted by the Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia in Riga. Cultural heritage was chosen as the topic for 2018. LIFE Peat Restore team participated by creating the Mire laboratory, among several … read more
