We’re restoring lost peatlands in Belgium.
Peatlands are unique wetland ecosystems that store water, prevent floods, and absorb carbon. In fact, even though they cover just 3% of the world’s land, peatlands store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined.
But then we drained them. Across Europe, wetlands were cut up and drained with long, straight drainage ditches to turn them into farmland. More than 80% of Europe’s wetlands disappeared.
In our 35th mission, we went to Belgium and teamed up with EcoTree to restore this important wetland ecosystem.
But this mission was different! For the first time ever, we brought members of the Planet Wild community into the field. Together with them, we launched a huge wetland restoration mission.
Chapters
0:00 From farmland into wetland
0:49 How Europe used to look
2:06 Meet our partner
2:43 What is peat?
4:01 Why peatlands are disappearing
5:15 How we’re bringing back peat
6:05 Our community in the field
7:26 Our support
7:52 The impact
Credit to : Planet Wild