Lake Engure Nature Park is one of the most important areas for conservation of alkaline fens in Latvia. The area is selected as one of the LIFE Peat Restore action sites where hydrological restoration will be carried out. The alkaline fens are suffering both from drainage and lack of traditional management leading to spread of … read more
From 6 to 17 November 2017 the international Climate Change Conference will take place in Bonn. The annual Conference of Parties (COP) is the highest body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At the same time, it is the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the 2nd … read more
In October 18, 2017, the first steering group meeting for the site management plan of Augstroze Nature Reserve was held in Limbaži municipality. There was a variety of participants: representatives from different governmental institutions, local municipality, JSC “Latvian State Forests”, local journalist, experts involved with the elaboration of the plan and LIFE Peat Restore representatives. … read more
On 23 and 22 August 2017, a meeting between representives of two Polish LIFE projects and Latvian and Polish representatives of LIFE Peat Restore project was held in Latvia. Poland was represented by a non-governmental organisation Klub Przyrodnikow (Naturalists’ Club) which currently implements two LIFE projects aimed at restoring alkaline fens: Conservation and restoration of alkaline … read more
Project team from Tallinn University completed vegetation analyses on their large (over 3000 hectares) restoration site at Suursoo – Leidissoo fen complex. Vegetation analyses were made on 14 transects crosswise ditches, each 200 to 500 metres long. The length of transect and the number of study plots on transect depends on vegetation pattern. On one … read more
Lithuanian Fund for Nature together with project partners Peat Producers Association and Klamann-Deilmann (LT) Company staff participated in a study tour – “Experience of sphagnum cover restoration in exploited peatlands”- to the Emsland region of Germany, from 26 June to July 2. Participants of the study tour took part in a workshop, hosted by Klasmann-Deilann … read more
The Polish team hosted the ELM Media film crew on 26-28 June. They recorded the first series of photos and interviews for a documentary about the LIFE Peat Restore project – to reduce CO2 emissions by restoring degraded peatlands in the northern European Lowlands. In Poland, shots were taken at the conclusion of the experiment … read more
The European Commission Monitoring expert, Dr. Jan Sliva, carried out the first mission to assess the performance of the LIFE Peat Restore project – Reduction of CO2 emissions by restoring degraded peatlands in Northern European Lowland. On June 9, he visited NABU headquarters, in Berlin (Germany), to meet with the new project managing team. Then … read more
From 28th to 29th april, the nine partner organizations from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Germany met in Brandenburg for the international workshop “Peatlands and Atmosphere“ to set the technical base for the LIFE project. A workshop and practical application of direct greenhouse gas measurements as well as vegetation mapping in the “Löptener Fenne”, a … read more
The teams of LIFE Peat Restore from Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Germany met for the first time in Riga at the first project meeting in the end of February. The University of Latvia, one of the Latvian partners, invited to the Botanical Garden to discuss about the status of the project, the ongoing activities … read more
