At Ylpässuo, a protected mire in southern Finland, researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu are studying a protected mire functions as part of the REWET project.
▶️ Discover the Ylpässuo Open Lab 👇
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Slide titled “External and internal drivers behind the formation, vegetation succession, and carbon balance of a subarctic fen margin,” followed by a list of authors. Below the title are two side-by-side color maps labeled (a) and (b) showing a subarctic peatland area. The left map illustrates spatial patterns of exchange flux with a color scale ranging from blue (low/negative values) to red (high/positive values). The right map shows differences in groundwater table (GWT) levels, with colors ranging from blue (lower values) to yellow and red (higher values). Legends identify peatland types such as fens, bogs, and treed fens, and both maps include a north arrow and scale bar. The Wet Horizons logo appears at the bottom
Are expanding northern peatlands cooling or warming the climate? It depends on how they develop🧪
This study combines paleoecology, remote sensing and hydrological modelling to examine peatland expansion and vegetation succession in a subarctic fen margin in Lapland
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At the same time, the team is evaluating how common forestry practices influence the carbon balance and ecosystem functioning of peatland forests.
Take a look at our site! 👇
Drainage lowers groundwater levels, exposing peat to oxygen and accelerating its decomposition, releasing stored carbon as CO₂. At the Estonian Open Lab, the project is testing controlled water level manipulation, gradually raising groundwater levels to slow peat oxidation and reduce carbon losses.
🤔 Here, researchers are investigating a critical question: how do forest and water management practices affect carbon dynamics in drained peatland forests?
In southern Estonia, the ForPeat Open Lab is exploring how forestry and #peatland ecosystems can coexist more sustainably. Located in Rumba, the study site covers 50 hectares within a 500-hectare spruce-dominated peatland forest, an area shaped by decades of forestry and drainage.
📊 Within ForPeat, the scientific focus is clear: comprehensive greenhouse gas monitoring and ecosystem assessment. The site offers a unique opportunity to quantify carbon dynamics before and after rewetting interventions. At Karlstifter Moor, our Open Lab has just installed an eddy covariance tower.
🍃 This site focuses on a degraded raised bog within the Karlstifter Moor complex. Over the past century, drainage lowered the water table and allowed woody vegetation to expand. Now, restoration planning is underway, with rewetting as the main objective to restore the bog’s natural hydrology.
🌍 Across Europe, ForPeat is working through several Open Labs to test and demonstrate peatland restoration and managemenr in real conditions. One of them is located in Karlstifter Moor, Austria
Sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the achievement of the #SDGs.
Protecting wetlands ensures that tourism development remains responsible, inclusive and future-focused.
#GlobalTourismResilienceDay
Collage titled “Citizens Power Wetland Science” showing citizens photographing wetland information boards, scanning QR-code signs, and observing wetland vegetation during field activities.
Two people conducting citizen science monitoring in a forested wetland, standing within a marked plot; text explains benefits of citizen science such as covering more ground and filling monitoring gaps.
Person walking along a wooden boardwalk through a green wetland forest; overlay text invites people to take part in wetland science and learn about wetlands.
Group of people gathered at a wetland site with overlaid maps highlighting citizen science locations in Finland, Denmark, and Germany, and a call to follow Wet Horizons to learn more about wetlands.
Wetlands are not just a ecosystems:
They are places of knowledge, culture, and life.
Citizen science plays a crucial role in safeguarding and restoring wetlands.
World Wetlands Day today reminds us of this
#WordWetlandDay #CitizenScience
Nominations to the Executive Board can be submitted by National Committees until 6 February. peatlands.org/executive-bo...
🌍 Happy World Wetlands Day!
💧Wetlands come in many forms, such as marshes, bogs, and fens. Among them, peatlands are wetlands where long-term waterlogging and low-oxygen conditions allow partially decomposed organic matter to accumulate over centuries.
Here are a few key facts ⬇️
The Finnish Peatland Society has published the programme of its Peatland Day (Suopäivä) in Helsinki on 5 February. Have a look and register, there are still a few seats available: www.suoseura.fi/2026/01/21/s... #peatlands #peat #finland #suo #turve
#ExcitingNews: Today @wmo-global.bsky.social and the Convention on Wetlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding, establishing a framework for collaboration. The MoU aims to leverage the complementary strengths of the two institutions to strengthen the science–policy interface. #WetlandsMatter
🎉15 DAYS TO GO! 🎉
First celebrated in 1997 and a United Nations International Day since 2022, #WorldWetlandsDay honours the beauty and value of wetlands.
Details: www.worldwetlandsday.org
#WorldWetlandsDay2026 #CelebratingWetlands #WWD2026 #WetlandsandCulture
📢 Webinar invitation | EU Nature Restoration Law & Peatlands
🗓 20 January
⏰ 14–15:30 CET
💻 MS Teams
• Irene Bouwma, Netherlands
• Bernd Hofer, Germany
🔗 Link via Peatland Snippets 1.2025
👉 Info: peatlands.org/event/webina...
#peatlands #peat #agriculture #NatureRestorationLaw
Photo: Ries Bosch
💻 Wetlands in Action Webinars - Session 4: Registration is open!
🛰️ "Remote Sensing of #Wetland and #Peatland Dynamic: #Restoration and Carbon Emissions"
Date: 10 February 2026
Time: 11:00 –12:00 (CET)
Location: Online 💻
Registration link 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🌍 ForPeat is working to change this. The project develops sustainable land management and restoration approaches to strengthen soil carbon storage, improve soil health and support biodiversity in forested peatlands.
🔗 Learn more about ForPeat’s approach:
www.forpeat.eu/news/forpeat...
🍃 #Peatlands store vast amounts of #carbon and play a key role in #water regulation and #biodiversity protection. Yet decades of drainage and land-use change have left many European peatlands degraded, turning former climate allies into sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
✨ Happy New Year! Let’s kick off 2026 with fresh science and sharp discussions.
🌿 Wetlands in Action – Webinar Session 3
Data-Driven Wetland Monitoring
GHG hotspots & Rewetting Impact Assessment
📅 13 Jan 2026
⏰ 11:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online
👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The project works to balance:
🌱 Biodiversity conservation
🌍 Climate change mitigation
🌲 Bioeconomic needs
➡️ By combining research, technology, and collaboration, ForPeat is working to turn knowledge into practice.
Follow our journey!
Through 8 Open Labs established across Europe, ForPeat will enhance monitoring and data collection, filling crucial gaps in the European flux network and advancing our understanding of the multifunctionality of peatland forests.
The ForPeat project addresses these challenges through a multi-actor approach that brings together researchers, land managers, and policymakers to improve the way we manage and restore forested peatlands.
🌿#Peatland forests across Europe are highly diverse ecosystems varying in nutrient levels, peat depth, hashtag#hydrology, and #management practices. This complexity makes both forestry operations and ecological restoration particularly challenging.
As the coordinator of ForPeat, IDENER.AI leads the project’s management activities and develops decision-support systems and economic assessments to guide sustainable forest peatland management.
Learn more about IDENER here: idener.ai
🌍 Meet our coordinator 👏
Based in Spain, IDENER.AI is a research SME that combines artificial intelligence, systems modelling, and optimisation to address complex scientific and engineering challenges.
