BUFFER + Symposium on carbon captation in West-Flemish soil On December 6th, 2024, a key symposium on sustainability and carbon captation was held in Roeselare, West-Flanders. The event focused on CO2 compensation, reduction, and business collaborations to pro... 8 Jan 2025
BUFFER + UNEP Atlas highlights urgent need for peatland protection to combat climate change The Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas , published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on 21 November 2024, underscores the critical importance of peatlands, which cover only 3-4% of the Earth's surface... 16 Dec 2024
BUFFER + BUFFER+ at Interreg NWE Annual Event at Dublin’s Croke Park On November 5th and 6th, Dublin’s Croke Park hosted the Interreg NWE Annual Event. With over 400 attendees, the event highlighted the achievements of current projects and promoted upcoming initiatives... 2 Dec 2024
BUFFER + BUFFER+ Partner Meeting in the Weser-Ems region BUFFER+ Partner Meeting in the Weser-Ems region: peat extraction, renaturation, and peat substitutes The third BUFFER+ partner meeting, held from October 8 to 10, 2024, focused on peat extraction, mo... 13 Nov 2024
BUFFER + Spreading the Message: Interreg BUFFER+ at Eurosite’s Annual Meeting Presentation of the Interreg BUFFER+ Project at Eurosite’s Annual Meeting At the annual meeting of Eurosite , the Interreg BUFFER+ project was presented to the participating members. The discussion fo... 7 Nov 2024
BUFFER + BUFFER+ Joins NWE Annual Event in Dublin BUFFER+ is excited to announce our participation in the NWE Annual Event on November 5 and 6, 2024, at the iconic Croke Park stadium. We are proud to be part of this significant gathering that highlig... 31 Oct 2024
BUFFER + Learning from rewetting in the past - the case of Kwetshage, BE The Kwetshage area is situated in the coastal province of Flanders, nearby the city of Bruges. It has an area of approximately 90 ha, and it is former agricultural land, situated in a polder region. I... 10 Oct 2024
BUFFER + Learning from rewetting in the past - the case of 't Roegwold, NL Learning from rewetting ’t Roegwold – Groningen, the Netherlands The former agricultural area, that now is the nature area Roegwold, was pinpointed as a nature development area in the 1980’s. Here pol... 4 Oct 2024
BUFFER + Students of the University of Marburg, Germany, interview BUFFER+ partners In the period between April and July, one of the BUFFER+ partners, Marburg University in Germany, offered a students’ seminar on the topics of the BUFFER+ project. The seminar's objective was to devel... 13 Aug 2024
BUFFER + BUFFER+ presented at Groeningen networking event Discussing the development of Groeningen How to deal with agricultural developments in the coming years in the Groeningen low moorland area ? That was the central theme at the Groeningen network meeti... 8 Aug 2024
BUFFER + BUFFER+ at The Rivers Trust All- Ireland Conference Unlocking Resilience: Solutions for Flood Mitigation and Paludiculture – BUFFER+ at The Rivers Trust All- Ireland Conference Peatland Restoration and Paludiculture Project Officers Barry McLaughlin an... EU news 1 Aug 2024
BUFFER + Digital twinning for effective measures on peatlands Peatlands are crucial ecosystems that store lots of carbon, support unique biodiversity, and regulate water flow. However, these valuable landscapes are under threat from human activities such as drai... 16 Jul 2024