🙌On the last day of May, in time for #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, the #WaterLANDS Action Site Pärnu Catchment in Estonia celebrated a meaningful milestone in peatland restoration: the opening of the Kõrsa Citizen Science Trail!📸Anna B Erikson. Learn more: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...
We may have missed World Peatlands Day, but it’s never too late to highlight one of the planet’s most powerful carbon sinks.
These ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon and are key to fighting deforestation and climate change
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📢 🌾 In celebration of #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, our Irish Action Site partners organised three events with school children, local citizens and farmers in the week of the 2nd June 2025! waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...
Four children making edible peat pots in paper cups from crushed biscuits, green cake, strawberry laces and jelly sweets
We had so much fun at our half-term event. Children learned all about the importance of #peatlands and its wildlife whilst making edible peat pots, splashing in mud, trying their hands at heritage crafts, pond dipping and making dens. Thank you all for coming! #WorldPeatlandsDay @wildlifebcn.org
This week we recognize World Peatlands Day! POV: You love plants so much that you are open to growing without using peat, which always comes out of amazing wetlands! #WorldPeatlandsDay #endpeatsales 🌿🌰
🌱 In celebration of #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, we are highlighting some recent updates, results and upcoming plans of the BnM #Sphagnum Planting Campaign to restore former industrial peat extraction sites! Read here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...
Les tourbières ne couvrent que 3% de la masse terrestre libre de glace, mais elles contiennent 30% du carbone organique des sols de la planète.
La conservation des tourbières garantit des services écosystémiques qui soutiennent la capacité d'adaptation.
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🌍 Peatlands store more carbon than all forests combined. And yet, we drain, burn, and ignore them. Protecting them is climate action. Restoring them is high-return investment. On #WorldPeatlandsDay, let’s keep them wet, intact, and alive.
#CarbonSink #ActNow #NatureDoesntForget
A pond in the centre of the photo, with reeds growing in it. Surrounded by vegetation - reeds, sedges, grasses, mosses, small trees like willow and hawthorn. Bright blue sky. Lochán i lár an ghrianghraif, le sraith ghiolcach ag fás ann. Timpeall an lochán, tá plandaí ag fás - giolcach, cíb, roinnt saighead féir, caonach, crainn beaga cosúil le saileach is sceach gheal. Spéir gheal ghorm!
Do Lá Domhanda na bPortaigh (inné!)- seo Portach Fionniúr (eanach atá ann!) i Co Phort Láirge. For World Peatlands Day, here's Fenor Bog (a fen) in Co. Waterford. #WorldPeatlandsDay #LáDomhandaNaBPortaigh 🐸🦎🪲💚
On #WorldPeatlandsDay, we celebrate the rich diversity of those who safeguard these vital ecosystems with a collective reading of the Venice Agreement poem—offered in
many languages, by many voices.
theveniceagreement.net
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#wecareforpeatlands
#wetlands
#theVA
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🌍 Today is World Peatlands Day!
For over 30 years, peatlands have been at the heart of our research — from understanding their ecology to restoring them.
Let’s raise awareness and fall in love with peatlands — because we protect what we love. 💚
📷 Iris Duvivier
#PeatlandsMatter #WorldPeatlandsDay
These are wonderful! Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! May the sphagnum be with you! 😊
It's #WorldPeatlandsDay!
DYK, we have been supporting our friends at @BNF_Intl for a number of years to restore vital peatland habitat for orangutans and other wildlife?
www.orangutanlandtrust.com/our-partners
#SavePeatlands to #SaveOrangutans!
And we just can't get the team to *stop* telling us why they love #Peatlands on #WorldPeatlandsDay! Bless...
#GreatNorthBog
Peatlands are also important habitat for orangutans.
Choose #sustainable #palmoil to protect #peatlands AND #orangutans!
#WorldPeatlandsDay
It's #WorldPeatlandsDay!
Did you know, sustainable oil palm growers are required by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to maintain or restore peatlands in their concession areas?
By choosing only #sustainable #palmoil, we can all help to protect #peatlands!
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Bright yellow sun rising over an ombrotrophic peatland located just outside Havre-St-Pierre in northeastern Quebec. There are shrubs in the foreground, and low vegetation and ponds in the background, all flooded with yellow light.
Today is #worldpeatlandsday!
May the sun continue to rise on beautiful peatlands such as this one, in northeastern Quebec.
C'est la journée internationale des tourbières - elles doivent plus que jamais être protégées convenablement, de Havre St-Pierre, comme sur la photo, à Blainville ! 💚💧🌿
A dry landscape with shrubs and mountains in the distance.
A green rainforest.
A muddy wetland surrounded by grasses.
A wetland on a sunny day.
We ❤️ peat at Eos. Learn more about peatlands and check out our coverage here: eos.org/tag/peat #WorldPeatlandsDay
But peat is under threat as climate change, development, and water use dries wetlands. eos.org/research-spo... #WorldPeatlandsDay
And carbon-dating cores of peat helped scientists track how a changing climate influenced cultural history in Hokkaidō, Japan. eos.org/research-spo... #WorldPeatlandsDay
Peatlands are also useful archives for archaeologists. Microbes, pollen, and plant fossils preserved in peat showed scientists that Northern Ireland’s wild uplands were occupied and farmed for centuries: eos.org/articles/pea... #WorldPeatlandsDay
Did you know peatlands hold about a third of the world’s soil carbon? Restoring peat can, over time, create larger and more effective carbon sinks. eos.org/research-spo... #WorldPeatlandsDay
The draining of peatlands impacts people, the environment & our planet.
By restoring peatlands we can:
✔️reduce fires & floods
✔️fight soil erosion & coastal area loss
✔️improve water quality
✔️sustain livelihoods
✔️reduce #GHG emissions
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Join us in raising awareness on #WorldPeatlandsDay! Despite being some of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on earth, these ecosystems are dangerously under-protected according to the first global assessment of the conservation status of the world’s peatlands by @wcs.org.
Ontario’s Bill 5 would create “special economic zones” where key laws wouldn’t apply. The Ring of Fire could be one of them.
This area holds some of the world’s remaining high-integrity peatlands that store carbon, filter water, and support biodiversity #WorldPeatlandsDay 🧵
We couldn't let #WorldPeatlandsDay pass without resharing this important work. 🌍🌱🔥
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Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay. These photographs show the devastating effects of a recent wildfire on peat moorland in the Peak District. Peatlands are vitally important carbon stores - storing nearly twice the carbon stored in all of the world's forests.
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/in-phot...
Bridestones Moor - moorland landscape with rocks, moss, wet bog areas and blue sky.
Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay - it's great to celebrate this important habitat and carbon store. One signee of our Open Letter about Church Land Use shared how he is involved in Calderdale Sphagnum Project/ Bridestones Rewilded (pic). Still time to sign: operationnoah.org/church-land-use
Close up picture of Sphagnum
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! How are you celebrating? Let's see your pictures.
Find out just some of the many benefits of this amazing habitat in our leaflet, "What's so special about Peatlands". tinyurl.com/tahhvdha
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Photo: Laurie Campbell, NatureScot
