The Care-Peat Decision Support Tool
Posted onCare-Peat put together a guideline of models for different types of peatlands and users Read More
News
Pilot site Cors-y-Sarnau, Wales: Project update (april 2023)
Posted onNorth Wales Wildlife Trust have continued to carry out our restoration work at Cors-y-Sarnau through the winter of 2022/23, focussing on the restoration area at Coed Tŷ Uchaf where the main goal is to reduce water from the bog into the adjacent drainage channel. Read More
Brussels Care-Peat Policy Makers Workshop: Bringing peatlands to the political heart of Europe
Posted onOn 26th October 2022, Care-Peat hosted a joint event in Brussels with the WaterLANDS project to discuss peatland policy recommendations developed with stakeholders and to advocate for stronger peatland targets in the proposal for the new EU Nature Restoration Law. The event, attended by MEPs, Directorate-Generals, and other policy stakeholders, called for a range of new measures, including the significant increase of peatland restoration targets for 2050, and the mandatory monitoring of restoration. Read More
Natuurpunt starts crucial phase in the Valley of the Black Creek: colander becomes sponge
Posted onAlmost three kilometers of waterways will be releveled in the valley of the Black Creek as icing on the Care peat cake. After almost 2 years of procedures (and many workshops, meetings, site visits, persuasion and a hydrological study especially commissioned for this), Natuurpunt has finally been granted the permit to carry out the relevelling of 2.7km of waterways to 20 cm below ground level. Read More
Care-Peat's partner meeting in The Netherlands
Posted onOn October 6 th and October 7 th , the project's partner meeting took place, in the Netherlands. The partners traveled to Zwartsluis to meet and discuss the progress of the Care Peat project. Read More
Winmarleigh carbon farm chosen as handover location for world’s longest ever attempted relay
Posted onIn October the Running out of Time relay visited one of Care-Peat’s UK pilot site projects at the Winmarleigh carbon farm. The Running out of Time relay was the longest non-stop relay ever attempted, starting in Glasgow, UK, the site of COP26 and continuing 7,767km all the way to Sharm-el-Sheik in Egypt, the site of COP27. The relay aimed to highlight the desperate plight our planet faces in the face of the climate emergency and passed a handful of outstanding climate-positive projects along the route – and the Winmarleigh carbon farm was chosen as one of them, one of only 27 in the UK. Read More
Press release: “For Peat’s Sake”: Brussels Nature Restoration Law Event
Posted onOn 26th October 2022, Horizon 2020 project WaterLANDS and Interreg North-West Europe project Care-Peat hosted a joint event in Brussels to discuss peatland policy recommendations developed with stakeholders and to advocate for stronger peatland targets in the proposal for the new EU Nature Restoration Law. The event, attended by MEPs, Directorate-Generals, and other policy stakeholders, called for a range of new measures, including the significant increase of peatland restoration targets for 2050, and the mandatory monitoring of restoration. Read More
Our new pilot site Cors y Sarnau, Wales: project update
Posted onIn January 2022, we began our restoration work at Cors y Sarnau. The first phase of restoration involved removing scrub from the peatland areas, which needed to be completed before the start of nesting bird season in March Read More
Care-Peat UK Meeting: trip to our carbon farm
Posted onOur UK partners Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Manchester Metropolitan University hosted a new Care-Peat partner meeting on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 June 2022. Read More
Comparing tools to estimate carbon fluxes from peatlands
Posted onThe estimation of GHG fluxes emitted by peatlands is of main interest to organise the restoration of the sites but also to guide future political and economic actions. Read More