ZukunftMoor - Vital Wetlands Project
Farming - Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Especially since the 20th century, we have been draining our peatlands with huge effort and on a grand scale. Dry peatlands continuously emit CO2 year after year, even decades after they have been drained. Intact peatlands, on the other hand, act as a carbon sink. In addition, they have many other positive environmental effects.Today, 7% of agriculture in Germany takes place on drained peatland. Currently, this land emits 53 mT of CO2, around 7% of total greenhouse gases in Germany. Worldwide CO2 emissions from drained peatlands are more than double that of air travel.ZukunftMoor aims to inspire farmers to rewet their currently dry peatlands by setting up a profitable model farm based on Paludiculture. Paludiculture is agricultural land use of rewetted peatlands, which preserves peat soil and thereby minimizes CO2 emissions and subsidence.The model farm will be realized as a start-up, but above all it aims to be an integral part of the community of local farmers. The project is in the first phase of feasibility study. The project partners are Florian Forstmann, Niko Waesche, Christian Wessel and Aljoscha Kaplan, in close cooperation with the Michael Succow Foundation, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre.By draining our wetlands we have caused huge environmental damage. Now it is time to reverse this development.(Photo credit: Tobias Dahms.)
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