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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Earlier this month, the European Peatlands Initiative was officially launched at Power to the Peatlands 2026 Conference! This is a Europe-wide network to strengthen cooperation, exchange knowledge, and take action to conserve and restore peatlands! 🔗 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/europea...

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WaterLANDS H2020 @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Led by We are here Venice, Giants of the Lagoon is an innovative and replicable environmental education and citizen science programme helping students “re-see” the lagoon and strengthen ecological literacy. 🔗Read the full story here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

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‘Giants of the Lagoon’ – a replicable environmental education programme facilitating deeper engagement with dynamic wetland environments

WaterLANDS is an EU-funded project that will restore wetland sites across Europe and upscale wetland restoration for sustainable ecosystems, communities and economies.

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🌿Community Wetlands Forum have developed a practical resource to support wetland communities explore creative engagement approaches to conservation. It provides guiding principles, informative checklists, as well as examples. 🔗 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/practic...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🌿Continuing our Peatlands & Art series, we spoke with artist Juliet Klottrup on her work documenting peatland restoration on Denton Moor with the Yorkshire Peat Partnership. 🔗Read the full article on our website here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan... 📸Images: Copyright Juliet Klottrup

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! 🌱Peatlands are critical for people, climate and nature. 🌱 In celebration of these valuable ecosystems, we have created an infographic which explains the different peatland habitats found throughout Ireland!

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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! 🌱 To mark the day, we're spotlighting our project Multi-scale Environmental Assessment of Upland Natural Capital - developing new ways to monitor peatlands and upland habitats across the island of Ireland using drones, satellites and ground data. More 👇

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Multi-scale Environmental Assessment of Upland Natural Capital - Climate Co Centre

This project develops new ways to monitor and report on the health of upland habitats. It combines data from...

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WaterLANDS H2020 @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🌿A new exhibition "Between Land and Water – Our Sizzling Relationship with Mires", co-curated by partners from WaterLANDS, explores the diverse value of wetlands and bogs both in Estonia and across the globe. 🔗 You can read more about the exhibition on our website: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🌿 Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! Peatlands are home to a high proportion of Ireland’s biodiversity. 🌿We are shining a light on our beloved Sphagnum Moss, the critical bog builder! 🌿At P&P, we have been planting Sphagnum across re-wetted cutaway bog formerly used for extraction.

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🌿 Today is World Curlew Day! Sadly, there has been a 98% decline in breeding pairs in Ireland since the 80s, due to habitat loss and fragmentation, highlighting the urgent need for increased peatland restoration and education. 🔊 Listen here to their iconic call: lnkd.in/d6YphsDd #peatlandrestoration

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🌿 🙌 On 19 February 2026, the Peatlands and People Project held its annual #EPA Ireland researcher meeting, which brought together scientists from several EPA projects that inform the implementation & monitoring of Peatlands & People. Read the recap here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/annual-...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🙌 🌿 Meet the Climate Champions powering community action for healthier peatlands. For our new #ChampionsforChange campaign, we spoke to Ailbhe Gerrard, an organic farmer from the shores of Lough Derg, Tipperary: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/champio...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🌱For the Peatlands & Art series, we interviewed environmental artist @katefoster.bsky.social about her work on peatlands, in particular 'Mending the Blanket' (2019), and the value of finding community, both in-person and online. 🔗Read the full article here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📢 🌿After its first successful 2023 edition, the "Power to the Peatlands Conference" returns for its second time from 2-4 September 2026! 📍Congrescentrum 1931, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Registration is now open here: sites.google.com/view/power2p...

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Power to the Peatlands 2026

Power to the Peatlands 2026 Back to the Future: imagining tomorrow, acting today

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🌿 📢 We're back with the 2nd feature of our Company Spotlight Campaign, where we highlight some of the innovative #AccelerateGreen initiatives driving change in the Irish Midlands and beyond! This week, we interviewed Jeff Matthews, CEO & Co-founder of #Chefra: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/acceler...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year from all of us at Peatlands and People Project!🎄 Last month we published a newsletter of highlights from across the year.🔗https://lnkd.in/ekvKaaFV We look forward to building on this good work and making further progress in 2026!

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

📢 ✉️ The LIFE IP Peatlands and People 2025 Winter #Newsletter is out! As we approach the end of the year, we’re taking the opportunity to reflect on some of the milestones we have achieved this year. Read the full Newsletter here: mailchi.mp/0aa1013ba65d...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📢 🌿 An exciting #PhD opportunity is now open on modelling #CO2 fluxes of Irish Peatlands with the @epaireland.bsky.social funded #AIMINGPEAT project! It will be conducted at #ATU Sligo in collab with @tcddublin.bsky.social 👉 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/new-phd...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🚨 Event Announcement – Save the Date! Join #BnM for the #AccelerateGreen Open Night at Dublin Chamber to understand more about the programme and its benefits to you. 📅 When? 4th November | 5.30pm – 8pm 📍Where? Dublin Chamber, 7 Clare St, Dublin 2 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/acceler...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A wonderful time was had last month welcoming volunteers from @deloitteinsights.bsky.social to plant Sphagnum moss on BnM bogs as part of P&P and PalusDemos. Some photos below, or check out our blog here ➡️ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/sphagnu...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🌱 🎨 In our new #PeatlandsandArt feature, we travel across the world to faraway Siberia - a place covered in permafrost. This is where the #SoilART project originates, inspired by the surprising, often breathtaking beauty of soil shaped by permafrost: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🌿 For our Peatlands & Art series, we interviewed feltmaker Sharon Wells from Kerry, who takes her inspiration from the Irish natural landscape and scenery, with its vibrant colours of mountains, boglands, and the sea. Read the interview here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🌱 In celebration of #NationalHeritageWeek, the @peatlandslife.bsky.social project hosted a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, on Saturday (23rd August), attended by more than 20 people despite rainy conditions. ☔ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/p-and-p...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌱 💧 Peatlands play a key role in water resource management. Continuing our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign, today we are spotlighting the role of peatlands for water quality! 🔗 Learn more about @epaireland.bsky.social funded #WETPEAT project: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🌱 🙌 Just 10 more days to go! Join @peatlandslife.bsky.social for a guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1472493681...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🤝🌍Today, we're spotlighting how peatlands can help fight climate change in continuation of our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign for #InternationalBogDay! 🔗 More information on the @epaireland.bsky.social #CO2PEAT project here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🤝🌱In collaboration with #LeaveNoTrace Ireland, Peatlands and People offers corporate days that bring employees outdoors for hands-on environmental action, including #Sphagnum planting on #BnM sites! Learn more about the #ESG Impact Days & how to get involved: peatlandsandpeople.ie/get-involved...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🌍💧#InternationalBogDay 2025 was celebrated on Sunday! To keep the momentum going, we're launching a #PeatlandLiteracy campaign—sharing powerful facts about how peatlands help fight climate change, protect water quality & support biodiversity. peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🙌Don't miss our guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. 📅 23 August 2025, 11:00 - 14:00 📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon 🚶‍➡️Ballyforan Greenway Car park at 11 am www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🌱🙌To celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek, we are hosting a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, 23rd of August 2025. 📅 23.08.2025, 11:00 - 14:00 📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...

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Guided Ecology & Heritage Walk at Ballyforan Bog for National Heritage Week

Join BnM Ecologists for a guided walk around the Ballyforan bog to hear about the bog's history and recent bog restoration measures!

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌱 On Wednesday, Peatlands and People held its annual #EPAIreland researcher meeting! The meeting brought together scientists from several #EPA projects, which inform the implementation, impacts and monitoring of the project. Key insights here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/event-r...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

📢In celebration of the upcoming #InternationalBogDay, #Tóchar Wetlands Restoration is organising a special event with five panel speakers at the "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again Exhibition" @nlireland.bsky.social on 26th July 2025. More info here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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Bogland: Between the Sights of the Sun

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📢 🙌 Aligning with #EUGreenWeek we are organising a targeted event to celebrate the #restoration and rehabilitation work of the project tomorrow (10 June 2025) at the #BnM visitor centre in Boora, Offaly! More info: green-week.event.europa.eu/partner-even...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🌱 In celebration of #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, we are highlighting some recent updates, results and upcoming plans of the BnM #Sphagnum Planting Campaign to restore former industrial peat extraction sites! Read here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Our Steering Committee had a great day out in the field yesterday, planting #sphagnum moss plugs on the Kilaranny bog for the #BnM peatland revegetation campaign. It was linked to a meeting in BnM's Boora Office providing the steering committee with key updates: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🌿 For our latest #Peatlands & #Art article, we interviewed photographer Shane Hynan. His work from the series ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ is currently exhibited in #EskerArts as part of the #BogSkin Exhibition. Read the interview: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📅 📢 #AccelerateGreen 2025 is taking place this Thursday, 15th May 2025! The conference organised by #BnM and Resolve Partners will explore topics such as #Energy and #Policy post COP29 & Ireland’s new government and position on Climate Action. Register: accelerategreen.ie/accelerate-g...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🌱 A major exhibition titled #BogSkin, which examines the relationship of Irish art to the boglands over the past 50 years, is coming to the Croghan Gallery at #EskerArts in Tullamore, Offaly this Summer. 📅 Official opening: Saturday, May 10th 3 p.m: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📢 Exciting update! The @epaireland.bsky.social funded #CO2PEAT project introduces its ‘miniRECgap’ R-Package research!📉Designed for simple gap-filling of missing Eddy covariance #CO2 flux measurements: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/excitin...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🌱 🙌 Our project updates continue! The #CO2PEAT project, funded by @epaireland.bsky.social, is dedicated to improving methodologies for reporting and verifying terrestrial #CO₂ removals and emissions from Irish peatlands. Find the most recent updates here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📢 Some exciting updates from @epaireland.bsky.social funded #ASPEN project using initial outputs to quantify how much #nitrogen leaves the ecosystem in the form of N2O. In collab with researchers from @teagasc.bsky.social , @tcddublin.bsky.social , #BnM & #NWPS: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

💧 🌱 In honour of #WorldWaterDay 2025 (Saturday, 22nd March), we have highlighted some key roles peatlands play in maintaining water quality! peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-w...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🙌 🌱 New updates from the #Ch4Peat project funded by @epaireland.bsky.social! The project concluded its CH4 field monitoring in October 2024, and has since progressed with some exciting activities: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

📢 Some exciting updates from the @epaireland.bsky.social funded WET-PEAT project, supporting Bord Na Mona restoration across 33,000 hectares of pearlands! Researchers from @uniofgalway.bsky.social & @tcddublin.bsky.social are working hard across 5 study sites: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A new article in @theguardian.com highlights a recent study by @wcs.org, which shows that only 17% of our global #peatlands are within protected areas. This is in contrast with ecosystems such as tropical forests, where 38% were protected, and mangroves (42%) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🌿 🌍 #BordnaMona has selected 9 innovative green businesses for its 2025 #Accelerategreen GROW programme, which is designed to empower early-stage enterprises, SMEs, and start-ups driving transformative solutions for a greener future: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/meet-th...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📢 🎨 For our latest #Peatlands & #Art feature, we interviewed Fiona McDonald whose new work “We Share the Same Air” is featured in the ‘Bog Skin’ exhibition launching today at the #RHAGallery in Dublin! 📅 From 6 February 2025 🎙️ Read the full interview: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Excited to announce that the latest LIFE IP Peatlands and People newsletter is here! 🌱 Highlights include: ✅ 1M+ Sphagnum moss plugs planted ✅ Big strides in innovation for climate & sustainability ✅ "Climate House" visitor experience rebrand Dive in now: mailchi.mp/dae678b9d9db...

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🕯️🕯️🎄Happy second Advent-week to all #PeatECR and #peatland folks! We’re looking for dynamic, motivated new members to continue our mission to support PeatECR all over the world 🤝🌎 Contact us via 🌐www.peatecr.com or via 📧 peatecr@gmail.com for more information. 📸: @andreasheinem.bsky.social

Eddy-covariance tower in a vast peatland. Photo: Andreas Heinemeyer

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A Red-Letter Day! EU LIFE Peatlands and People hits a huge milestone: 1 MILLION Sphagnum moss plugs planted on Bord na Móna bogs! 💚 Sphagnum on 250 hectares so far with a goal of 800 by 2027. Here’s to carbon sequestration & ecosystem revival! peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/red-let...

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LIFE IP Peatlands and People @peatlandslife.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Working together to restore and rehabilitate peatlands across Ireland's midlands, establish a business accelerator programme & design an immersive visitor experience. A 7-year LIFE Integrated Project, Peatlands and People aims to generate and share solutions and knowledge for a better future.

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