ALFAwetlands blog

  • ALFAwetlands Summary-2023 and Perspectives-2024

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    ALFAwetlands Summary-2023 and Perspectives-2024

    In the year 2023 ALFAwetlands project had a great progress towards achieving its main goals, namely: improvement of the geospatial knowledge base of wetland, evaluation of pathways of wetland restorations and provision of information and indicators for sustainability to maximize climate change mitigation, biodiversity and other benefits.  During 2023 ALFAwetlands 14 +1 partners from 10…

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  • Living Lab Upper Peene Valley, Germany

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    Living Lab Upper Peene Valley, Germany

    The Living Lab “Upper Peene Valley” is located in the north-easternmost federal state of Germany Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania. The River Peene gives the region its name, a river measuring 100km in length from its source at Lake Kummerow to its estuary at Szczecin Lagoon at the Polish-German border. The River Peene has an extremely small hydraulic…

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  • Enhancing European wetland knowledge for further decision-making, Part 2

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    Enhancing European wetland knowledge for further decision-making, Part 2

    Sound wetland data development Sound wetland data development under ALFAwetlands Work Package 1 has been supported by the project partners running ALFAwetlands Living Labs. These wetlands catchments serve as examples of how geospatial data can be collected, processed and integrated to produce results that accelerate wetland and peatland restoration using available data, current knowledge and…

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  • Enhancing European wetland knowledge for further decision-making, Part 1

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    Enhancing European wetland knowledge for further decision-making, Part 1

    ALFAwetlands Work Package 1 is led by the Michael Succow Foundation (MSF). The MSF is in charge of performing extensive data collection, mapping, and Earth Observations-based modelling of the current status of the European wetlands, taking into account different types of natural and wetlands and such under artificial used. Performance of these tasks together with…

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  • A field excursion to two different bogs – a glimpse of ALFAwetlands research in Finland

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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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  • Peatland Atlas 2023

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    Peatland Atlas 2023

    Facts and figures on wet climate guardians ALFAwetlands partner, Michael Succow Foundation, is glad to share with us  the recently published Peatland Atlas. The Peatland Atlas was published in September 2023 by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the Michael Succow Stiftung, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre, and BUND (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland/Friends of the Earth Germany), with support of the Global…

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  • Michael Succow Foundation

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    Michael Succow Foundation

    One of the ALFAwetlands partners from Germany is the Michael Succow Foundation. In 1999 Michael Succow founded this foundation with the prize money of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, awarded to him in 1997. It is one of the first non-profit nature conservation foundations in the new German states.…

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  • Co-creation experience of the Rampillon Living Lab site

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    Co-creation experience of the Rampillon Living Lab site

    Tackling non-point source pollution in intensive agricultural area, near Paris, faces several barriers. In order to stimulate communication between stakeholders, ALFAwetlands partner: INRAE in cooperation with AQUI’Brie: association to protect ground water resources developed tools and serious game to support participatory approaches. Objectives The objectives were to test tools that would facilitate dialogue on diffuse…

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  • Living lab site – Öland, Sweden

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    Living lab site – Öland, Sweden

    The Swedish Living Lab within the ALFAwetlands project is the island of Öland, situated in the Baltic Sea just off the southeast coast of Sweden. Introduction Covering a surface area of 1,342 square kilometres and home to approximately 26,600 inhabitants, Öland is connected to the Swedish mainland by the Öland Bridge, constructed in 1972. The…

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