#peatland — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #peatland, aggregated by home.social.
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#NorthCarolina #Peatland #ClimateChange
From AP News.com: In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
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"Continued use and access to the peat swamp forest is therefore essential for people's well-being. Formalizing the customary tenure of communities that use the peatlands could contribute to their long-term protection."
Dummett et al. (2026). "How people use the peat swamp forests of the central Congo Basin" https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0489
#wetlands #peatland #peatlands #swamps #bogs #carbon #conservation #landUse #LULUCF #land #landscape #Congo #DRC #forests #fishing
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Carbon credits as currently structured are ineffective for funding peatland restoration - but if effective, they could be actively harmful.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261437571
#wetlands #GHG #conservation #carbonCredits #rewetting #rewilding #carbon #peatland #peatlands #landuse #land #landscape #carbonOffsets #UK #Britain
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”When our rewilding program started, many big corporations offered us huge amounts of money if we certified carbon credits. We consulted with communities. But our answer was that we don’t sell nature.”
#climateFinance #wetlands #rewetting #prevention #deterrence #rewilding #Finland #Karelia #peatland #restoration #landUse #peatlands #nature #carbon #carbonSinks #CDR #wildfires #offsets #carbonOffsets #communities
