Collaboration on Peatland Restoration with Stella McCartney
In the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, we began collecting data for a five-year project with Greenchoice to reduce wildfires that in recent years have spread from cattle ranches and consumed up to a third of the wetland, threatening its jaguars, giant otters, caymans and blue macaws. Meanwhile in Europe, we have been lobbying for a tougher EU Nature Restoration Law that can catalyse wetland recovery. A draft of the law published by the European Commission in June planned, among other things, to restore the free flow of at least 25,000 kilometres of rivers by 2030, but had weak targets for rewetting peatlands as a means to meeting EU climate and biodiversity commitments. We continue our work in the field to show how it can be done. 2022 saw new funding from the US philanthropic Grantham Foundation to kick off a second phase of our work with Rewilding Europe, developing commercially-based peatland restoration in Poland’s Oder delta and Norrbotten county in northern Sweden. And we launched a collaboration with French luxury goods company LVMH to restore 200 hectares of blanket peat bog in northwest Scotland, funded by donations from purchasers of skincare products developed by Stella McCartney.
It’s the new wet look.
Our partners working for a better conservation of wetlands at Junín, Perú
Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
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