A colleague sent me a link to a short article on a big project – the restoration of 15 mires in Belarus.
A massive international collaboration has tackled the toxic legacy of years of peat mining and the results have been spectacular.
This is a great conservation success story – bring benefits to wildlife but equally to people living locally. The benefits don’t just stop there, as healthy peatlands are effective at locking away carbon which would otherwise be adding to the risks of climate change – and that is good for us all.
Aquatic warbler - an iconic bird of the fen-mires of Belarus. Illustration by Mike Langman
I'm planning to feature a guest blog on this exciting project in the near future.
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