“Sachara will be wet” – this is the message of the LIFE Peat Restore peatland expert group in Lithuania. Drained eight decades ago, excavated and damaged by fire this peatland (88 ha) was abandoned for more than forty years. However, spring of 2020 is promising new opportunities. Nature management actions implemented during the winter of … read more
On February 18 and 19, NABU’s LIFE Peat Restore team attended a Peat Reduction Conference, organised by Germany’s Food and Agriculture Ministry (BMEL). The conference focused on the Government’s Strategy to address peat extraction and growing media industry, as well as, showcased several scientific research results conducted across Germany and Europe on peat and alternatives … read more
Every year the Peat Restore team prepares a comprehensive assessment of the project’s overall performance. The Protocol covers all activities conducted within the project in 2019: the restoration, monitoring and communication measures. If you are interested to find out in detail what Peat Restore has been up to in 2019, check out our Protocols. The … read more
Do you know that Madagascar, Switzerland and Sachara are in Lithuania? In fact, the first two sites represent the names of settlements, whereas peatland in North-Eastern Lithuania is named after the biggest desert in the world – Sachara. Unfortunately, these two sites have something in common. Both are suffering from the lack of water. “Peatlands … read more
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
Everybody’s talking about trees. But on a global scale, peatlands, if they are still intact, store more carbon than all the forests on earth put together. Peatlands obviously have an image problem. This is something that is on the minds of many people who have come to the Estonian Embassy in Berlin on 15 January: … 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
