🌱In celebration of #WorldWetlandsDay WaterLANDS partners from our Bulgarian Action Site, the BALKANI Wildlife Society and WWF Bulgaria, hosted a presentation and a winter walk through Dragoman Marsh. 🔗Read more here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌱In celebration of #WorldWetlandsDay WaterLANDS partners @elfond.bsky.social & University of Tartu from our Estonian Action Site hosted a Wetlands Day Conference in Pärnu with the Estonian Academy of Sciences. 🔗https://waterlands.eu/news-and-events/world-wetlands-day-2026-celebrations-in-paernu/

🌿🙌 Following a successful first edition in 2023, the Power to the Peatlands Conference returns for its second European conference, this time in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, from 2–4 September 2026. Registration is now open: sites.google.com/view/power2p...

🙌 🌿 We're excited to launch our 4th #WaterLANDS Artist-In-Residence Spotlight, perfectly timed to continue this year's #WorldWetlandsDay celebrations! Meet Maria Nalbantova, artist-in-residence at the Dragoman Marsh - WaterLANDS Action Site in Bulgaria: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 In celebration of #WorldWetlandsDay this year, @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social partners from our Italian Action Site are hosting a guided walk around the salt marshes of Venice Lagoon on Sunday 1st of February 2026. For more information and to register, please contact <[email protected]>.

🌱📢 We just published the third feature of our new #WaterLANDS artist-in-residence spotlight. This week, we spoke with @lauraharrington.bsky.social and @feralpractice.bsky.social working at our UK Action Site, the Great North Bog. 🔗 Read the full article here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌿 📢 The #WaterLANDS project was featured in the latest @ec.europa.eu #CORDIS article "Preparing for the future of Europe's peatlands", highlighting insights from a recent study published by Wageningen University on shifting climate boundaries for European peatlands: cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

🌍 The EU is entering a decisive phase in implementing the #NRR. The 4 EU-funded projects @merlin-project.bsky.social #SpongeScapes #spongeworks & WaterLANDS will come together in Brussels on 🗓️10 March to explore what comes next for restoration policy & practice: project-merlin.eu/brussels2026...

🌿The "snake" is an impressive #landscapeart project by #WaterLANDS artist in residence Elo Liiv, which represents a symbol that is characteristic of the local area surrounding the abandoned Kõrsa peat extraction fields in Estonia: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Season's Greetings from all of the WaterLANDS Team!☃️ Last week we published a newsletter of highlights from across the year. 🔗Read the full newsletter issue here: lnkd.in/dmQbzBUa We are looking forward to a restful break before we enter the fifth and final year of the project!

📢🔎 New publication for #WaterLANDS conducted by @w-u-r.bsky.social found that climate change will massively impact European #peatland functioning except for the most cool and wet parts of northern Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, and at higher elevational ranges of the continent.

🎄🥳 Right in time for the #WaterLANDS project's fourth birthday, we've just released our fourth annual e-newsletter! Read the full newsletter issue here to find out what our partners have been up to: mailchi.mp/6cc9a13e4849...

💙 📢 Welcome to the second feature of our #WaterLANDS artist-in-residence spotlight! This week, we talked to interdisciplinary artist Claudio Beorchia, who grew up only an hour from the Venice Lagoon. Read his insights here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌿🙌Our #WaterLANDS Irish Action Site was visited by the national TV & radio broadcaster @news.rte.ie and featured in RTE's latest article today! 📽️Tune into #RTE Six-One news tonight for more insights on the visit and restoration activities carried out at Bencroy Mountain: www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

📢 🌍 #COP30 is just around the corner! On 17 November 2025, several #WaterLANDS partners are co-organising an official side event in Brazil on the "Peatland Breakthrough- A Global Call to Unlock the Power of Peatlands"! waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🎬 🥳 It's fantastic to see #WaterLANDS being featured in the latest RTE 2 "The Future of Nature" Episode, which streamed on Sunday, 2nd November 2025! 🌿 From 35 minutes onwards, Dr Guaduneth Chico guides us along the Irish Action Site! 🔗 Stream the episode for free here: www.rte.ie/player/serie...

🙌 📢 The WaterLANDS project was featured as a success story by the @ec.europa.eu Green Deal Projects Support Office (#GDSO) for the "Blanket Restoration Toolkit" developed for farmers by the Irish Action Site: 🔗 waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

We're delighted to have worked on this new policy brief on 'Stakeholder engagement for the development and implementation of National Restoration Plans', together with our sister projects @merlin-project.bsky.social, #RESTCOAST and #SUPERB project! 🔗 Download: project-merlin.eu/files/merlin...

💙 📢 Welcome to our WaterLANDS artist-in-residence spotlight! With this campaign, we aim to shed light on the important work of the #WaterLANDS artists across the different Action Sites! This week, we spoke to installation-based artist Christine Mackey waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌿 🙌 New publication from the WaterLANDS partners at @unitartupress.bsky.social! The publication was published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and assesses the carbon cycle at the #WaterLANDS Estonian Action Site Lavassaare 👉 waterlands.eu/results-and-...

🙌 🌿 Yesterday, a group of #WaterLANDS partners from @ucddublin.bsky.social and @erinninnovation.bsky.social visited Christine Mackey, artist-in-residence at the Irish Action Site at the Bencroy blanket bog in Leitrim. 👉 Read more about the field trip here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🎙️ 🌾 Meet the #WaterLANDS team! Today, we sat down with Nelly Ivanova, who works at our Bulgarian Action Site - the Dragoman Marsh. Read her insights into the Action Sites restoration & public engagement activities here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Last week our Estonian WaterLANDS partners headed to Finland for a Peatland Restoration Workshop, hosted by Uni of Eastern Finland. The visit mixed fieldwork with vital discussions on monitoring, tree decay & restoration plans in Estonia & Finland. 📸 Some highlights below!

📢 🤝 Yesterday, our WaterLANDS partners from @wetlandsint.bsky.social spoke at a panel discussion on “Implementing Restoration Solutions, Together” as part of a Dublin-based co-creation themed event, organised by @erinninnovation.bsky.social. Read the insights here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Exciting news for peatland restoration in Ireland! @peatlandfinanceie.bsky.social, building on and aligning with @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social, just confirmed that #Meta, #Microsoft & #Google are investing over €3 million to restore 450ha of degraded Irish peatlands: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌾 📢 The past year has been a generative period for the @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social artists in residence. To spotlight their ongoing effort and research, we have gathered some updates on their work in the field! 📸Elo Liiv waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌍 @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social Policy Lead & Research Scientist Emma Hart introduces us to some good news for #nature and #climate in our latest #blog post! The International Court of Justice (#ICJ) issued one of the strongest legal statements yet on climate change: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Last week WaterLANDS partners across 🇮🇪 and 🇪🇺 met to explore our peatlands and boost restoration efforts! ✅ Met farmers to discuss commonages ✅ Discussed cross-border collaboration ✅ Visited blanket bog sites Learn more: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🙌The #BogFilmFest event organised by our WaterLANDS UK Team from @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social in collaboration with #GreatNorthBog partners was a great success - with a full house!📽️A total of 4 inspiring films were screened at the Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds. waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 New publication under the H2020 #WaterLANDS project: Best practices in European wetland restoration reviews manuals and guidance across Europe, highlighting gaps in usability, scope, and language accessibility. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Wetlands #Restoration #EUresearch

As part of the upcoming #IUCNpeat 2025 conference, our Irish Action Site partners are coordinating a site visit to the Bencroy Blanket Bog on behalf of WaterLANDS on Wednesday, 1st October 2025: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 🙌 In our latest edition of the #WaterLANDS #blog, we spoke to Joshua Cohen, the UK Action Site's Community Engagement Lead, about the upcoming #BogFilmFest they are hosting this July and the purpose and importance of community engagement work! waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🙌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...

📢 🌿 Read the insights from our recent dedicated panel discussion on private sector #investment into nature restoration at the #WaterLANDS General Assembly in Leeds! waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 🌾 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...

📢 Our WaterLANDS partners from @gtk-fi.bsky.social have published a new policy brief on #peatland #restoration in Finland, which highlights the policy impact being made beyond our WaterLANDS Action Sites: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

#BogFilmFest is being held across the north of England to encourage people to discover why peatlands matter & to find out about crucial work being undertaken to restore them. 3 exciting events include film screenings about the brilliance of bogs: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🌿In our latest #WaterLANDS #blog, Irish Action Site Coordinator @guaduneth.bsky.social provides insights into the purpose and importance of the School Programme set up as part of their restoration work with Wild Atlantic Nature LIFE IP & #NPWS! Read the article here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Some photos from the WaterLANDS GA this week in Leeds, northern England. A week of connection, collaboration and inspiration for holistic wetland restoration. Thanks to @unileedsglobal.bsky.social and @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social for hosting us! ⭐️

🙌 We are looking forward to our #WaterLANDS General Assembly next week, hosted for 3 days in Leeds by our UK partners from @leedsunimedia.bsky.social & @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social! Watch the video below to learn more about our #UK action site: youtu.be/OUiBtmdscTM?...

🌾On 10 March 2025, #WaterLANDS held a high-level workshop at the @ec.europa.eu in Brussels together with the 3 other projects funded under the #Horizon2020 #GreenDeal Call - @merlin-project.bsky.social , #RestCoast Project and #SUPERB Project. Read the report here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

🙌 The #WaterLANDS project was featured as a success story by the @ec.europa.eu Green Deal Projects Support Office for its work on scaling wetland #restoration and innovative governance models for long-term resilience! waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 🌾 Exciting news! The #WaterLANDS UK team @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social has produced a White Paper on the requirements for upscaled #peatland restoration of England’s uplands! Read it here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

Explore our restoration works at Bencroy 🇮🇪🇪🇺 We are working with local communities 🧑‍🌾 to reduce carbon loss and implement erosion control actions as part of @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social #HabitatRestoration #BlanketBogs

Happy #WorldWaterDay! 💧 Healthy wetlands = clean water 🌿🌊 Wetlands act as nature’s water filters, trapping pollutants, replenishing groundwater, and reducing floods. At WaterLANDS, we’re restoring wetlands at scale because protecting water starts with protecting wetlands! 💙

🌾 To celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay, each year our partners from @tourduvalat.bsky.social organise an open house day at its research institute and the Regional Nature Reserve. This year, more than 700 visitors attended this special event on February, 2nd 2025: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

📢 Our project partners from Plan Bleu and @tourduvalat.bsky.social published a new article on "characterizing governance models for upscaling wetland restoration" in the journal Environmental Management! Read here: waterlands.eu/results-and-...

🌾 📢 Our #WorldWetlandsDay2025 series continues! On Sunday, 2nd February 2025, the BALKANI Wildlife Society and #WWF Bulgaria celebrated World Wetlands Day with a series of engaging activities at the Dragoman Marsh in Bulgaria. Read more here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

ERINN Innovation works on the @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social project and on February 6th, the power of co-creation and the importance of promoting sustainable wetlands will be spotlighted. Few tickets remain! Learn more and register for tomorrow's event here: waterlands.eu/news-and-eve... #wetlands

🙌 🌿 In honour of #WorldWetlandsDay2025, the #WaterLANDS Knowledge-Site Siikaneva in Finland will open its doors on 2 February 2025 for outdoor activities accompanied by peatland stories! Learn more about the Knowledge site & reach out to us if you're interested here: waterlands.eu/project-site...