ALFAwetlands blog
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Join exciting biodiversity observations 2025
This year ALFAwetlands will again join City Nature Challenge initiative as an important citizens engagement activity. This will support understanding of wetlands importance and biodiversity benefits by involving the public in data collection and awareness initiatives. The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is an annual global community science event that encourages individuals worldwide to document urban biodiversity. Participants photograph…
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Leveraging satellite data for wetland monitoring
CREAF has provided ecological and remote sensing expertise to the ALFAwetlands project, applying techniques that improved the spatial knowledge of the wetlands in the project’s Living Labs. In Work Package 1, CREAF developed algorithms to map land cover in Living Labs using Sentinel-2 data and generated 30-year land cover change maps with Landsat data. In…
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Meet CREAF: ALFAwetlands partner from Catalonia
CREAF provides expertise in ecology and remote sensing for important tasks in the ALFAwetlands project. About CREAF CREAF (Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre) is a public research center based in Catalonia. CREAF is dedicated to terrestrial ecology, territorial analysis and global change. CREAF’s mission is to generate knowledge to understand nature, identify potential threats,…
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Meet the University of Barcelona team
The University of Barcelona, a public institution, is renowned for its commitment to quality education, groundbreaking research, and active engagement with society. Founded in 1450, it now fosters a vibrant community of nearly 100,000 members. Researchers participating in the ALFAwetlands project, belong to the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences. And they bring…
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New European Wetland Map: a milestone in wetland conservation
On time for the World Wetlands Day, the European Wetland Map (‘EWM’) is launched. This map significantly enhances the state-of-knowledge on wetlands across Europe by locating, assessing and merging the latest geospatial data. It combines various data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on wetland types and their distribution on mineral soil in coastal environments and…
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Training on European Wetland Map
Join ALFawetlands free online training “Unlocking the Power of Wetland Mapping for Restoration“! 📅 Date: 13th May 2025 | 🕙 Time: 10:00-12:00 CET This session is designed to equip policymakers, researchers, and other interested stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to leverage wetland mapping for EU restoration targets. Gain expert insights, explore the European Wetland…
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Call for Experts: Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Wetlands
We are searching for BES experts! Deadline is the 01st of September, 2025! Contribute to ALFAwetlands Task 3.4. on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Wetlands! We are inviting wetland researchers and experts to contribute to our ongoing work in ALFAwetlands Task 3.4: “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) responses in wetlands under different land use, restoration…
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ALFAwetlands joins iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a powerful online platform and mobile app that connects people who share an interest in biodiversity. It serves as a social network for scientists, naturalists, and enthusiasts, enabling users to identify and learn about the plants and animals around them while contributing to global conservation efforts. By simply recording and sharing your observations,…
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Modelling land use: peatland rewetting in the European climate mitigation targets
ALFAwetlands applies different models and one of them is GLOBIOM, the Global Biosphere Management Model. The European Commission’s impact assessments of the Fit for 55 reform and the 2040 climate target outline clear pathways to achieve climate neutrality in the EU27 by 2050, a goal adopted by the European Union. These assessments emphasize that contributions…
