Scientists identify the most urgent research questions facing the world’s peatlands

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An international team of researchers have identified the most urgent unanswered questions about peatland ecosystems, providing a global roadmap which can guide future science and policy for one of the planet’s most important and threatened ecosystems...

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Aquatic Warbler Credits to Zymantas Morkvenas

Region Global

Peatlands as a safe haven for rare and threatened biodiversity

24 November, 2020

Theme Conservation

Region Global

Exploring Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Peatland Restoration workshops series

22 November, 2020

Theme Restoration

UK peatlands

Region Europe

Eurosite Annual Meeting 2020: ‘Zooming’ in on European natural site management — from plan to action

18 November, 2020

Theme Restoration

Region Global

Tropical peatland conservation could protect humans from new diseases

17 November, 2020

Theme Conservation

Data shared by the Data Visualization Lab at National Geographic. This National Geographic Society open source technology and datasets will be available via the UN Biodiversity Lab platform

Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Country Argentina

Protecting the crucial peatlands of Argentina’s Peninsula Mitre

28 October, 2020

Theme Conservation

Wildfires 5 Wikimedia Incendio forestal en Pirque Santiago de Chile

Region Global

Governments, smart data and wildfires: where are we at?

17 September, 2020

Theme Fires

Chilean Peatlands

Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Country Chile

Growing awareness of the value of Chile’s peatlands

28 July, 2020

Theme Conservation

Peat coring

Region Global

Countries preserving the world’s largest terrestrial organic carbon stock with the support of peatland mapping and monitoring

28 June, 2020

Theme Researching peatlands location and status

Region Global

GLF Digital Conference – Why peatlands Matter for Food Security

10 June, 2020

Theme Livelihoods

Agreement signed between FAO and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Region Global

Agreement signed between FAO and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

30 January, 2020

Theme Other

Working on Fire

Region Global

Smart management of wildfires can help curb global heating

16 December, 2019

Theme Fires

UNFCCC COP24 Event: Towards a joint peatland declaration: Synergies of MEAs to reverse the trend on peatland degradation

08 December, 2019