This video demonstrates how heavy rain on bare peatlands leads to runoff and peat erosion.

However, planting Sphagnum slows the flow of water! This benefits ecosystem services like flood management and water purification🌊

So, let's get restoring!
#PeatlandsMatter #Sphagnum

Would you be brave enough for this job? Rhododendron is an attractive plant, but this non-native species will out compete native species if left unchecked, drying out peatland and undoing our work to re-wet the peat and increase new peat formation #peatlandsmatter #biodiversity

Another decade(ish) old dam up on Cray Moss doing its thing. Certainly the amount of water it’s holding is a facet of weather but there’s so much sediment trapped and so much vegetation growing behind it (right hand side is “upstream”).
#GreatNorthBog #PeatlandsMatter

A somewhat more challenging visit to Yorkshire Dales NT Cray Moss in Yorkshire Dales National Park than the previous Friday's trip. Great to see all this rainwater being held back on the bog.
#GreatNorthBog #PeatlandsMatter

These coir logs break up the flow of rainfall over the bog, slowing its drainage into rivers below and helping to mitigate flooding downstream. Although they stand out when first placed, they'll gradually weather into the landscape #PeatlandsMatter #GreatNorthBog

Straight from the overnight ferry to do some bog bothering in Belfast before #BES2023 using it as a last bit of inspiration before my talk on all things carbon in Falkland peat on Friday

S42 Ecosystem and Functional Ecology at 11:45

#peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Happy #BogDay to all #peat land |ers (and peatlanders to be)!

Restored bogs can form quite some new #peat within decades and thus become a carbon sink.

#PeatlandsMatter
#Moorbodenmonitoring

As it's Half Term, the #Bogtastic van will be out and about throughout the week. Come down and experience our 'bog in a van' and find out all about the importance of looking after our precious peatlands. #peatlandsmatter

The transformation of ‘No Man’s Land’ continues 👏 Community Wetlands Forum International Peatland Society Malcolm Noonan T.D. @LIFEraisedbogs Wetland Link International Dianna Kopansky Connecting Communities with Peatlands NenaghGuardian PPN Tipperary Ryan O’Meara LIFE INSULAR 🇮🇪 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Advisory Board Peat Hub Ireland Notice Nature Ireland
#peatlandsmatter

We are off with this years #PeatConf23 : Beyond Peatlands IUCN UK Peatlands with over 300 people joining in person in Ely and online all sharing peatland knowledge! #PeatlandsMatter

Before we head off into the weekend we want to remind you to look out for our works if you are out on the moors. Helicopters have been hard at work on Combs Moss above the town of Buxton, with thanks to our funders and partners @nestleuki Severn Trent @envagency #peatlandsmatter

In Venice last June I met the most amazing group of #peatlandsmatter champions & we co-designed #theveniceagreement which basically says ‘we care for peatlands’. I love wetlands: they are true wonderlands. Especially Irish wetlands 🐸 ⁦UN Environment Programme⁩ ⁦⁦GreifswaldMireCentre⁩

It feels like the long days of Summer are a distant memory now but we've been reminiscing about all the people we had the privilege to meet this year while we were out and about in the Bogtastic Van.
#PeatlandsMatter Severn Trent

#Peatlandsmatter - for climate, biodiversity, water management, and more!

Experts & speakers from LIFE Programme are meeting to present practices & policy developments for peatlands restoration.

EU Environment EU Climate Action

Last call for registrations👉bit.ly/3oyiLQ1

I love sharing the magic of peat with others and grateful for the platform provided by British Ecological Society
I'm delighted to hear that some of my enthusiasm was shared by the judges and audience at #BES2023

#peatlandsmatter #forpeatsake #peatfree

Amazing day exploring blanket bogs 🌱 in the Azores 🇵🇹 Really good cover of Sphagnum moss, but very different to the blanket bogs that we can find in 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸 #PeatlandsMatter #GenerationRestoration

Conservation measures at Liffey Hd Bog are doing their stuff 👍 NPWS Nature Conservation Malcolm Noonan T.D. Peat Hub Ireland Peatlands Gathering National Parks and Wildlife Service Dianna Kopansky International Peatland Society #generationrestoration #peatlandsmatter #nature #Wellbeing

On my way home after the great #Power2Peatlands conference in Antwerp. Great networking opportunity, lots of interesting talks and (again) a very wet field visit #PeatlandsMatter #Restoration #Peattwitter IUCN UK Peatlands

#Peatlands and their management for #agriculture should be improved by better adapt crops to wet conditions. This means a paradigm shift to #paludiculture with benefits for #climate 🌦️, #biodiversity 🐸, #water 💦and people🧑‍🌾. Science-based targets 🎯 needed for #Peatlands Matter

Water levels are rising at ‘No Man’s Land’ as a result of the recent bunding construction👏 Fernandez Valverde 🇺🇦 Notice Nature Ireland Community Wetlands Forum NenaghGuardian IPS old profile BirdWatch Ireland Coillte @npwsBioData Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage #GenerationRestoration #peatlandsmatter #nature