Multipeat project
MULTI PEAT: Multi-stakeholder Landscape and Technical Innovation leading to Peatland Ecosystem Restoration
| Project Status: Live Project |  |
| Principal investigator: Niall O'Brolchain | |
| Funding programme: EU, LIFE traditional project | |
| Start Date: 10/01/2021 | |
| Finish Date: 30/09/2026 | |
| Project Website: https://www.multipeat.org/en |
Aim & Objectives:
The LIFE Multi Peat project aims to restore degraded peatlands by rewetting five project sites across Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Poland.
- Restoration of degraded peatlands: improving hydrological situation (e.g. drainage ditches), removing trees and shrubs / Improving the state of habitats and relevant species
- Establish paludiculture solutions: feasibility studies in Belgium and Germany
- Develop an EU-wide toolkit to catalogue peatland projects, policies and data
