In January and February 2020, restoration work was carried out in Engure, one of LIFE Peat Restore project areas in Latvia. The work was organised by the Lake Engure Nature Park Fund. In total 20 hectares of shrubs and young trees were cleared and removed from the overgrown parts of the fen. It has created … read more
We are pleased to invite you to take part in an international conference “Restoring peatlands for climate” on 28–30 June 2020. The conference is organised by the University of Latvia within LIFE Peat Restore project. The aim of the conference is to bring together professionals of peatland restoration and researchers who study various aspects of … read more
Discussions on peatland protection, restoration and the phase out of peat extraction are spreading like wild fire. Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, where governments committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, policy-makers have been busy with questions of how to best reach this goal. In this new context, peatland ecosystems are increasingly being recognised … read more
LIFE Peat Restore invites you to join us in the critical discussion surrounding the phase out of peat and large scale restoration of degraded peatlands as necessary measures to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement; namely, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% until 2030, compared to 1990 levels. Representatives of Government Ministries … read more
On October 21, 2019, LIFE Peat Restore held the opening of the photo exhibition ‘Restoring Peatlands for Climate’, in collaboration with Barnim District Administration, in the main administration building Paul-Wunderlich-Haus in Eberswalde. In Barnim district the German restoration site Biesenthaler Becken is located. Following several displays across Latvia, organised by our project partner University … read more
On 13th–14th September, 2019, two hectares of bare peat in post milled extraction field of Aukštumala peatland (Lithuania) were covered by diaspores of Sphagnum mosses. It is one of the largest Sphagnum growing sites in the Baltics, where Canadian ‘moss layer transfer technique’ and German experience in Sphagnum farming were applied aiming at the restoration … read more
In September 2019, LIFE Peat Restore project was represented in two international conferences. On September 2–6, the Latvian national coordinator, mire expert Māra Pakalne participated in the 28th European Vegetation Survey Conference in Madrid, Spain. This year the conference focused on vegetation diversity and global change, as well as vegetation dynamics and conservation of threatened … read more
In September 2019, LIFE Peat Restore project was represented in two international conferences. On September 26, Māra Pakalne respresented LIFE Peat Restore project in the LIFE Egge-Moore final conference in Paderborn, Germany, attended by more than 50 participants. The conference was a great opportunity to learn peatland restoration experience and techniques applied in Germany and … read more
From September 11 to 21, during Art Week Berlin NABU organised PlanetArt – Festival of Nature – where more than 40 artists from all over the world found creative ways to portray the encounter between art and nature. For nearly two weeks, visitors of all ages and backgrounds came to appreciate the art work and … read more
For developing a better methodology of indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emission assessment in peatlands in Latvia, a new project was implemented by the Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) in cooperation with Nature Conservation Agency of Latvia. The project was financed by the Latvian Environmental Protection Fund. The project “Remote sensing methodology for monitoring greenhouse gas … read more
