#peatland — Public Fediverse posts

"Peatlands are vital for tackling climate change, yet scientists still haven’t found them all"

#Peatland #Environment #Nature #Climate #ClimateChange

https://theconversation.com/peatlands-are-vital-for-tackling-climate-change-yet-scientists-still-havent-found-them-all-279578

Eryri National Park Peatland Restoration Projects, Wales
"By working closely with farmers and graziers we can ensure that they can continue to graze the land. Sustainable grazing benefits the peatland as it helps to keep it healthy by preventing any one species from dominating."
https://eryri.gov.wales/protect/conservation-work/peatland-restoration-projects/

#SolarPunkSunday #Peat #Farming #Grazing #Sustainability #Conservation #ERYRI #PeatLand #Agriculture #Wales #Snowdonia

Eryri National Park Peatland Restoration Projects, Wales
"By working closely with farmers and graziers we can ensure that they can continue to graze the land. Sustainable grazing benefits the peatland as it helps to keep it healthy by preventing any one species from dominating."
https://eryri.gov.wales/protect/conservation-work/peatland-restoration-projects/

#SolarPunkSunday #Peat #Farming #Grazing #Sustainability #Conservation #ERYRI #PeatLand #Agriculture #Wales #Snowdonia

Eryri National Park Peatland Restoration Projects, Wales
"By working closely with farmers and graziers we can ensure that they can continue to graze the land. Sustainable grazing benefits the peatland as it helps to keep it healthy by preventing any one species from dominating."
https://eryri.gov.wales/protect/conservation-work/peatland-restoration-projects/

#SolarPunkSunday #Peat #Farming #Grazing #Sustainability #Conservation #ERYRI #PeatLand #Agriculture #Wales #Snowdonia

Eryri National Park Peatland Restoration Projects, Wales
"By working closely with farmers and graziers we can ensure that they can continue to graze the land. Sustainable grazing benefits the peatland as it helps to keep it healthy by preventing any one species from dominating."
https://eryri.gov.wales/protect/conservation-work/peatland-restoration-projects/

#SolarPunkSunday #Peat #Farming #Grazing #Sustainability #Conservation #ERYRI #PeatLand #Agriculture #Wales #Snowdonia

Eryri National Park Peatland Restoration Projects, Wales
"By working closely with farmers and graziers we can ensure that they can continue to graze the land. Sustainable grazing benefits the peatland as it helps to keep it healthy by preventing any one species from dominating."
https://eryri.gov.wales/protect/conservation-work/peatland-restoration-projects/

#SolarPunkSunday #Peat #Farming #Grazing #Sustainability #Conservation #ERYRI #PeatLand #Agriculture #Wales #Snowdonia

https://www.europesays.com/videos/13205/ Inside the Welsh art gallery that’s restoring old masters | Coast & Country | ITV Cymru Wales #Art #artgallery #artwork #blackmountain #blackmountains #blackmountainscollege #coast #coastandcountry #country #farm #farmanimals #farming #farmlife #gallery #glynnvivian #hamishauskerry #hannahthomas #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #itvwales #jamiesfarm #mountains #peat #peatland #rural #rurallife #ruthdodsworth #swansea #Wales

Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades https://phys.org/news/2026-01-peatland-climate-mitigation-benefits-decades.html

#environment #peatland #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Ditches on peatland oil palm plantations are an overlooked source of methane: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/ditches-on-peatland-oil-palm-plantations-are-an-overlooked-source-of-methane-study/

#environment #peatland #PalmOil #methane #emissions

#ClimateChange #Moorland - Landscape Approach to #Peatland Restoration in Carbon Projects: Case Studies from #Peru and #Mongolia - Lecture by Dr. Tatiana Minayeva (CfE) - 29.10.2025, 16:00 - 17:30, Online - The “Peat Talks – Weihenstephan Moorland Discussions” are monthly online web seminars held by the Peatland Science Centre (PSC) – The lectures are open to anyone interested - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf #University of Applied Sciences https://www.hswt.de/newsroom/veranstaltungskalender/detail/peat-talks-weihenstephaner-moorgespraeche-oktober-2025

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’ https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rspo-sparks-ngo-outrage-for-dismissing-complaint-over-alleged-shadow-companies/

#Indonesia #environment #forest #deforestation #peatland #waters #river #pollution #PalmOil #sustainability

How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/how-indonesian-companies-dodge-fines-for-forest-peatland-fires/

#Indonesia #environment #peatland #forest #forestfire #wildfire #wildfire

"Peatland Rewilding: Finnish Community Turns Abandoned Mine into Vibrant Bird Sanctuary"

#Finland #Peatland #Environment #Birds

https://happyeconews.com/peatland-rewilding/

🌿 New study: What kind of #peatland future do we want—and how do we get there? We co-created mental models with 42 land users to explore how land use affects ecosystem services & well-being. Best future? A mosaic: peatland conservation, extensive grazing & eco-tourism.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126315

@photography

"Among the most intriguing discoveries are bog bodies – astonishingly well-preserved human remains, many over 2,000 years old, bearing evidence of ritual sacrifice. Their presence provides a window into a distant and enigmatic past’

#peatland
#BogBodies

@photography

Bog Story by Chad Alexander

‘Peatlands are also natural time capsules. Their waterlogged, oxygen-starved, and highly acidic environments preserve organic material in extraordinary detail, capturing traces of human history, mythology, and cultural memory. Growing at just one millimetre per year, each metre of peat stores a millennium of the past.'

#peatland

@photography
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'Compounding these pressures is the encroachment of mineral extraction companies, whose pursuit of gold and other minerals produces irreversible scars on these ancient landscapes’

Chad Alexander

#peatland

Bog Story by Chad Alexander

‘Over 80% of Northern Ireland’s peatlands are either damaged or in poor condition, transforming them from vital carbon sinks into carbon emitters. This ecological unravelling threatens not only the climate, but also the richly diverse habitats they sustain, including those of endangered species.'

@photography
#peatland
#NorthIreland

Meeeeoooow! 🐱

#Scotland’s endangered #wildcats could be saved in massive 800 sq mile #Highland #rewilding plan

The new Affric Highlands charity has set out ambitious plans to restore nature and wildlife over a sweeping area from #LochNess to the west coast.

Dan Vevers Sunday Mail Chief Reporter
08 May 2025

"Scotland's #endangered wildcats could be saved as part of a massive 800-square-mile rewilding plan across the Highlands. The new Affric Highlands charity has set out ambitious plans to regenerate native #woodland, #peatland and #riverside habitats and boost endangered species like wildcats, covering a sweeping stretch of the country from Loch Ness to the west coast.

"The group said it will work with local landowners to boost the local economy and make the region a hub for sustainable timber, fishing, farming, venison and wildlife tourism. Affric Highlands - whose emblem is a wildcat, also known as the '#HighlandTiger' - vowed to see the iconic animal flourish as it takes on the huge 30-year project."

Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-endangered-wildcats-could-saved-35186581

#SolarPunkSunday #RewildingScotland #EndangeredSpecies #Nature

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/perus-rare-peatland-swamps-at-risk-as-illegal-gold-mining-expands/

#Peru #environment #peatland #gold 3mining

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sustainable-palm-oil-firms-continue-illegal-peatland-clearing-despite-permit-revocation/

#environment #peatland #sustainability #PalmOil

Two years of gold mining devastates Peruvian peatlands, outpacing damage of the last 30 years https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-gold-devastates-peruvian-peatlands.html

#environment #peatland #gold #mining

#Wildlife trust buys massive £17.5m #Highland estate

March 3, 2025

"A conservation charity has bought an 18,824-acre (7,618ha) Highland estate for £17.5m after receiving a large private donation.

"Scottish Wildlife Trust (#SWT) plans to regenerate native woodland, restore #peatland and carry out nature-friendly farming on #InverbroomEstate.

"The area of land near Ullapool, in the north west Highlands, is larger than the city of Dundee.

"The donation that made the purchase possible was the largest in the trust's 60-year history."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr42n0dqqzno
#Rewilding #Scotland #SolarPunkSunday

#Sundews' secret to survival: Study reveals how #CarnivorousPlants adapt to #microhabitat challenges https://phys.org/news/2025-01-sundews-secret-survival-reveals-carnivorous.html paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14719

"they alter the density of their leaf tentacles and the uptake of nitrogen from prey to thrive in different #microhabitats, such as mounds and hollows, within #peatland #ecosystems... #plants invest more in carnivorous traits, when nutrients from the #soil are limited and light availability is high"

🧵 2/2.
Just above the Lecht ski centre, it was interesting to see an area of deliberately raising the water table to waterlog the peat, several different techniques are being used:

1. Turf piled up on the downslope to create a pond.
2. A series of small turf dams to slow the flow.
3. Wooden boards used to create dams to slow the flow.

And matting to protect the ground and retain vegetation.

#Cairngorms #CairngormsNationalPark #Lecht #Rewilding #Peatland #CarbonSink

Troubleshooting #methane & #peatland question: What’s the lesser evil - drained peatlands emitting CO2 or #rewetting causing CO4 emissions? Find answers in our beautifully animated new film 📽️
https://youtu.be/9fR8oxjxpTQ

Produced in coop of @succowstiftung the ELF & @unigreifswald

@euenvironment @EU_ENV the other day I met a German scientist who thought to stop draining all #farmland was a good idea to halt GHG emissions from #peatland. However he could not distinguish #Moor and #Marsch. I was not sure whether we build up peat on every soggy spot we stop draining. #drainage #agriculture

@AeonMach @jbenjamint I’d agree with you about not pinning our hopes on #hydrogen. But I used to live in the Gt Glen and saw the scale of environmental damage done by early pumped storage schemes - #LochNess/#LochMhor at #Foyers. But not only the early ones! The #GlenDoe scheme above #FtAugustus flooded a massive basin of #peatland supporting. good breeding populations of rare waders …dunlin, golden plover & greenshank… in the #Monadhliath

#pumpedStorage not the answer.

'Conservationists turn to glue to make seeds stick on windy Yorkshire moor'
Robyn Vinter

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/30/conservationists-turn-to-glue-to-make-seeds-stick-on-windy-yorkshire-moor

Interesting Guardian article about #peatland #restoration in North Yorkshire, using seeding with grass #seed to establish grass for facilitating establishment of bog #plants, and equipment which was designed for #reseeding #prairie #vegetation in the US.

#Sphagnum in two tones from the fall field season: Golden-brown hues of Sphagnum compactum on a seepy ledge in neUS; ruby-red of Sphagnum rubellum in a nearby bog. Such sn amazing & globally-significant genus!
#PeatMoss #Bryophyte #Peatland #CarbonCycle #Bog