Peatland restoration is a term describing measures to restore the original form and function of peatlands, or wet peat-rich areas. This landscape globally...
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A peatland is a type of wetland whose soils consist of organic matter from decaying plants, forming layers of peat. Peatlands arise because of incomplete...
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Peat (section Peatlands distribution)
decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss...
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agriculture and forestry on peatlands. Paludiculture combines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands through rewetting with continued...
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Industrial Research chair for Peatland Management since 2003. She has worked with the Canadian peat industry on peatland restoration after extraction of peat...
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Great North Bog (category Peatlands)
The Great North Bog is a large restoration initiative covering over 90% of the upland peatland in the North of England. It is a £200m project and aims...
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Trust has a special expertise include Red Squirrel conservation and peatland restoration. The Trust has an active team engaged in education activities including...
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conservation and restoration of peatlands is motivated by their nature as highly efficient and compact carbon sinks. While peatlands cover only 3% of...
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"Insects". Dartmoor National Park. Retrieved 3 June 2018. "South West Peatland Restoration – Devon Climate Emergency". devonclimateemergency.org.uk. Retrieved...
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nature-based carbon dioxide removal projects, such as afforestation and peatland restoration. Several organizations have investigated climate engineering with...
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"Indonesian businessman apologises for handling of info request from Peatland Restoration Agency". The Straits Times. 2016-06-13. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved...
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reported to have been destroyed in 1805. In recent decades extensive peatland restoration work has been carried out in the AONB [1], with over 755 hectares...
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Implemented high conservation stock assessments, peatland mapping and initial peatland restoration. 50 people have been trained for Fire Awareness Training...
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Shap Fells". Protected Planet. Retrieved 2024-11-20. "Shap Fells Peatland Restoration | Cumbria Wildlife Trust". www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk. Retrieved...
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Country (Scottish Gaelic: Dùthaich nam Boglaichean) is a vast area of bog peatland in Caithness and Sutherland, northern Scotland. It is the largest blanket...
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Wetland (redirect from Wetland restoration)
defined as follows: Article 1.1: "...wetlands are areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water...
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practice to end immediately, and stating that "Given that the cost of peatland restoration will continue to increase until extraction ceases, it would be both...
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"Characteristics of dissolved organic matter following 20years of peatland restoration". Science of the Total Environment. 408 (1): 78–83. Bibcode:2009ScTEn...
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aquatic biologist, ecologist Line Rochefort, ecologist specializing in peatland restoration Marie Sanderson (1921–2010), geographer and climatologist Hindou...
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Lampert Mosses (section Peat Restoration)
Mosses | IUCN UK Peatland Programme". IUCN Peatland Programme. Retrieved 2024-11-17. Mitchell, Andrew (2019-02-25). "Peat Restoration Work • Northumberland...
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movement), erosion control, landscape and biotope maintenance, and peatland restoration. Projects in Germany focuses on forest conversion. The project is...
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is taking on the Restoration Challenge". Retrieved 31 May 2018. "Peat CO2". Retrieved 31 May 2018. "Massive restoration of peatland forest in Sumatra...
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and regionally visibility was below 300 metres. However, recent peatland restoration efforts in the area of Moscow following the 2010 wildfires have decreased...
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the National Trust. Cumbria Wildlife Trust has been involved in peatland restoration within this protected area. Wainwright, A (1958). A Pictorial Guide...
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effort to crack down against illegal slash and burn practices. A Peatland Restoration Agency was also formed in 2015 under President Joko Widodo. In 2018...
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site) has been implementing a long-term peatland restoration program since 2003. Over 6,000 ha of degraded peatlands were rewetted by 2015." Meshchyora is...
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were installed. The Living Bog restoration project was nominated for a Natura 2000 award in 2020. The peatland restoration work of The Living Bog concluded...
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engineers'. These peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and...
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acres (212 ha) of drained peatland in Zim, Minnesota, in 1986. The Fens Research Site serves as an area for peatland restoration research and provides wetland...
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at the centre of the Flow Country, and began one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken in the UK. The area owned by the RSPB site...
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