Category: News
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A field excursion to two different bogs – a glimpse of ALFAwetlands research in Finland
ALFAwetlands organised a field excurison to the project’s Living Lab site in early September as part of the IBRFA 2023 conference. The excursion was to Southern Finland, home to Finland’s oldest and deepest bogs.
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Citizen science helps monitor wetlands
Citizen science can play an important role in supporting the research and monitoring of wetlands in Europe. Wetlands are vital ecosystems, but their conservation and management requires extensive data collection across diverse locations. Citizen science can provide a significant help in this process. Please also read: Living Laboratories What is citizen science Citizen science refers…
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Wetlands restoration in Portugal
Wetlands are very important for climate change mitigation, biodiversity as well as provide many other benefits. Wetlands restoration plays an important role in their preservation. Below you will find some experience from Portugal, discovered by ALFAwetlands experts. Wetlands restoration in Portugal is an important conservation initiative aiming at preserving and enhancing these valuable ecosystems. Wetlands…
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ALFAwetlands´ co-creation process
Recently, ALFAwetlands team made an additional important step to initiate knowledge co-creation processes in some of the Living Labs in ALFAwetlands. This is a part of establishing a solid fundament for building local, collective capacity to successfully implement wetland projects, across European cases and contexts. The Co-creation and inclusive Wetlands restoration is the ALFAwetlands Work Package 2,…
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ALFAwetlands Annual Meeting
From 8th till 12th of May ALFAwetlands Annual meeting took place in France. Main hosting partner was the French National Centre for Scientific Research, based in Toulouse. Beside Toulouse, partners also visited one of the ALFAwetlands Living Lab France sites -Rampillon, located close to Paris. Please also read: ALFAwetlands press release Meeting Agenda More than…
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Wetlands in Europe at the dawn of history
Wetlands in Europe at the dawn of history used to be one of the dominant ecosystems. After the last glaciation retreated, they covered extensive areas and significantly contributed to maintaining of the continental water balance. Wetlands already in the past were important source of the water that supported all forms of life. Even in last…
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Wetlands restoration in Slovakia
Wetlands are important Wetlands are critical part of our natural environment. They are the vital link between land and water. They provide a huge benefit in sheltering important biodiversity and in addition, they also provide a wide range of benefits to people. In Slovakia the leading organization dealing for 25 years with wetlands restoration is NGO Broz (Bratislava…
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Impacts of the EU’s proposed restoration regulation on habitat and peatland targets in Finland
EU’s Nature Restoration Law proposal sets targets for restoration. Initial assessment of the potential impacts for Finland have been published by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). Large-scale restoration mainly in wetlands, forests, and inland waters must be conducted to halt biodiversity loss. However, the state of the ecosystems and needed restoration actions are still…
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A new wetlands National Park in Slovakia?
Podunajsko National Park The new Podunajsko National Park would be the tenth national park on the Slovak Republic the territory. At the same time, it would be the only Slovak park located on the wetlands. Recently, a group of members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic came up with the initiative to create…