LIFE IP Peatlands and People
@peatlandslife.bsky.social
A 7-year LIFE Integrated Project, connecting Ireland's peatlands, people and policies to support the realisation of a climate resilient and sustainable future. Find out more at peatlandsandpeople.ie
📢 🌿 An exciting #PhD opportunity is now open on modelling #CO2 fluxes of Irish Peatlands with the @epaireland.bsky.social funded #AIMINGPEAT project! It will be conducted at #ATU Sligo in collab with @tcddublin.bsky.social 👉 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/new-phd...
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📢 🌿 An exciting #PhD opportunity is now open on modelling #CO2 fluxes of Irish Peatlands with the @epaireland.bsky.social funded #AIMINGPEAT project! It will be conducted at #ATU Sligo in collab with @tcddublin.bsky.social 👉 peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/new-phd...
🚨 Event Announcement – Save the Date! Join #BnM for the #AccelerateGreen Open Night at Dublin Chamber to understand more about the programme and its benefits to you.
📅 When? 4th November | 5.30pm – 8pm
📍Where? Dublin Chamber, 7 Clare St, Dublin 2
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📅 When? 4th November | 5.30pm – 8pm
📍Where? Dublin Chamber, 7 Clare St, Dublin 2
peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/acceler...
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🚨 Event Announcement – Save the Date! Join #BnM for the #AccelerateGreen Open Night at Dublin Chamber to understand more about the programme and its benefits to you.
📅 When? 4th November | 5.30pm – 8pm
📍Where? Dublin Chamber, 7 Clare St, Dublin 2
peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/acceler...
📅 When? 4th November | 5.30pm – 8pm
📍Where? Dublin Chamber, 7 Clare St, Dublin 2
peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/acceler...
A wonderful time was had last month welcoming volunteers from @deloitteinsights.bsky.social to plant Sphagnum moss on BnM bogs as part of P&P and PalusDemos.
Some photos below, or check out our blog here ➡️ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/sphagnu...
Some photos below, or check out our blog here ➡️ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/sphagnu...
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A wonderful time was had last month welcoming volunteers from @deloitteinsights.bsky.social to plant Sphagnum moss on BnM bogs as part of P&P and PalusDemos.
Some photos below, or check out our blog here ➡️ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/sphagnu...
Some photos below, or check out our blog here ➡️ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/sphagnu...
🌱 🎨 In our new #PeatlandsandArt feature, we travel across the world to faraway Siberia - a place covered in permafrost. This is where the #SoilART project originates, inspired by the surprising, often breathtaking beauty of soil shaped by permafrost: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
September 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌱 🎨 In our new #PeatlandsandArt feature, we travel across the world to faraway Siberia - a place covered in permafrost. This is where the #SoilART project originates, inspired by the surprising, often breathtaking beauty of soil shaped by permafrost: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
🌿 For our Peatlands & Art series, we interviewed feltmaker Sharon Wells from Kerry, who takes her inspiration from the Irish natural landscape and scenery, with its vibrant colours of mountains, boglands, and the sea. Read the interview here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
September 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🌿 For our Peatlands & Art series, we interviewed feltmaker Sharon Wells from Kerry, who takes her inspiration from the Irish natural landscape and scenery, with its vibrant colours of mountains, boglands, and the sea. Read the interview here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
🌱 In celebration of #NationalHeritageWeek, the
@peatlandslife.bsky.social project hosted a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, on Saturday (23rd August), attended by more than 20 people despite rainy conditions. ☔ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/p-and-p...
@peatlandslife.bsky.social project hosted a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, on Saturday (23rd August), attended by more than 20 people despite rainy conditions. ☔ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/p-and-p...
August 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🌱 In celebration of #NationalHeritageWeek, the
@peatlandslife.bsky.social project hosted a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, on Saturday (23rd August), attended by more than 20 people despite rainy conditions. ☔ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/p-and-p...
@peatlandslife.bsky.social project hosted a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, on Saturday (23rd August), attended by more than 20 people despite rainy conditions. ☔ peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/p-and-p...
🌱 💧 Peatlands play a key role in water resource management. Continuing our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign, today we are spotlighting the role of peatlands for water quality! 🔗 Learn more about @epaireland.bsky.social funded #WETPEAT project: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
August 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🌱 💧 Peatlands play a key role in water resource management. Continuing our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign, today we are spotlighting the role of peatlands for water quality! 🔗 Learn more about @epaireland.bsky.social funded #WETPEAT project: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
🌱 🙌 Just 10 more days to go! Join @peatlandslife.bsky.social for a guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1472493681...
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌱 🙌 Just 10 more days to go! Join @peatlandslife.bsky.social for a guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1472493681...
🤝🌍Today, we're spotlighting how peatlands can help fight climate change in continuation of our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign for #InternationalBogDay! 🔗 More information on the @epaireland.bsky.social #CO2PEAT project here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
August 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🤝🌍Today, we're spotlighting how peatlands can help fight climate change in continuation of our #PeatlandLiteracy campaign for #InternationalBogDay! 🔗 More information on the @epaireland.bsky.social #CO2PEAT project here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
🤝🌱In collaboration with #LeaveNoTrace Ireland, Peatlands and People offers corporate days that bring employees outdoors for hands-on environmental action, including #Sphagnum planting on #BnM sites! Learn more about the #ESG Impact Days & how to get involved: peatlandsandpeople.ie/get-involved...
July 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
🤝🌱In collaboration with #LeaveNoTrace Ireland, Peatlands and People offers corporate days that bring employees outdoors for hands-on environmental action, including #Sphagnum planting on #BnM sites! Learn more about the #ESG Impact Days & how to get involved: peatlandsandpeople.ie/get-involved...
🌍💧#InternationalBogDay 2025 was celebrated on Sunday! To keep the momentum going, we're launching a #PeatlandLiteracy campaign—sharing powerful facts about how peatlands help fight climate change, protect water quality & support biodiversity. peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...
July 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🌍💧#InternationalBogDay 2025 was celebrated on Sunday! To keep the momentum going, we're launching a #PeatlandLiteracy campaign—sharing powerful facts about how peatlands help fight climate change, protect water quality & support biodiversity. peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...
🙌Don't miss our guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. 📅 23 August 2025, 11:00 - 14:00 📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon 🚶➡️Ballyforan Greenway Car park at 11 am
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July 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🙌Don't miss our guided ecology and heritage walk to celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, the 23rd of August 2025. 📅 23 August 2025, 11:00 - 14:00 📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon 🚶➡️Ballyforan Greenway Car park at 11 am
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🌱🙌To celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek, we are hosting a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, 23rd of August 2025.
📅 23.08.2025, 11:00 - 14:00
📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...
📅 23.08.2025, 11:00 - 14:00
📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...
Guided Ecology & Heritage Walk at Ballyforan Bog for National Heritage Week
Join BnM Ecologists for a guided walk around the Ballyforan bog to hear about the bog's history and recent bog restoration measures!
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July 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🌱🙌To celebrate #NationalHeritageWeek, we are hosting a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog on Saturday, 23rd of August 2025.
📅 23.08.2025, 11:00 - 14:00
📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...
📅 23.08.2025, 11:00 - 14:00
📍 Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-eco...
🌱 On Wednesday, Peatlands and People held its annual #EPAIreland researcher meeting! The meeting brought together scientists from several #EPA projects, which inform the implementation, impacts and monitoring of the project. Key insights here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/event-r...
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🌱 On Wednesday, Peatlands and People held its annual #EPAIreland researcher meeting! The meeting brought together scientists from several #EPA projects, which inform the implementation, impacts and monitoring of the project. Key insights here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/event-r...
📢In celebration of the upcoming #InternationalBogDay, #Tóchar Wetlands Restoration is organising a special event with five panel speakers at the "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again Exhibition" @nlireland.bsky.social on 26th July 2025. More info here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Bogland: Between the Sights of the Sun
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July 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📢In celebration of the upcoming #InternationalBogDay, #Tóchar Wetlands Restoration is organising a special event with five panel speakers at the "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again Exhibition" @nlireland.bsky.social on 26th July 2025. More info here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
📢 🙌 Aligning with #EUGreenWeek we are organising a targeted event to celebrate the #restoration and rehabilitation work of the project tomorrow (10 June 2025) at the #BnM visitor centre in Boora, Offaly! More info: green-week.event.europa.eu/partner-even...
June 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢 🙌 Aligning with #EUGreenWeek we are organising a targeted event to celebrate the #restoration and rehabilitation work of the project tomorrow (10 June 2025) at the #BnM visitor centre in Boora, Offaly! More info: green-week.event.europa.eu/partner-even...
🌱 In celebration of #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, we are highlighting some recent updates, results and upcoming plans of the BnM #Sphagnum Planting Campaign to restore former industrial peat extraction sites! Read here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...
June 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🌱 In celebration of #WorldPeatlandsDay 2025, we are highlighting some recent updates, results and upcoming plans of the BnM #Sphagnum Planting Campaign to restore former industrial peat extraction sites! Read here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-p...
Our Steering Committee had a great day out in the field yesterday, planting #sphagnum moss plugs on the Kilaranny bog for the #BnM peatland revegetation campaign. It was linked to a meeting in BnM's Boora Office providing the steering committee with key updates: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
May 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Our Steering Committee had a great day out in the field yesterday, planting #sphagnum moss plugs on the Kilaranny bog for the #BnM peatland revegetation campaign. It was linked to a meeting in BnM's Boora Office providing the steering committee with key updates: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
🌿 For our latest #Peatlands & #Art article, we interviewed photographer Shane Hynan. His work from the series ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ is currently exhibited in #EskerArts as part of the #BogSkin Exhibition. Read the interview: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌿 For our latest #Peatlands & #Art article, we interviewed photographer Shane Hynan. His work from the series ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ is currently exhibited in #EskerArts as part of the #BogSkin Exhibition. Read the interview: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
📅 📢 #AccelerateGreen 2025 is taking place this Thursday, 15th May 2025! The conference organised by #BnM and Resolve Partners will explore topics such as #Energy and #Policy post COP29 & Ireland’s new government and position on Climate Action. Register: accelerategreen.ie/accelerate-g...
May 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📅 📢 #AccelerateGreen 2025 is taking place this Thursday, 15th May 2025! The conference organised by #BnM and Resolve Partners will explore topics such as #Energy and #Policy post COP29 & Ireland’s new government and position on Climate Action. Register: accelerategreen.ie/accelerate-g...
🌱 A major exhibition titled #BogSkin, which examines the relationship of Irish art to the boglands over the past 50 years, is coming to the Croghan Gallery at #EskerArts in Tullamore, Offaly this Summer.
📅 Official opening: Saturday, May 10th 3 p.m: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
📅 Official opening: Saturday, May 10th 3 p.m: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
May 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🌱 A major exhibition titled #BogSkin, which examines the relationship of Irish art to the boglands over the past 50 years, is coming to the Croghan Gallery at #EskerArts in Tullamore, Offaly this Summer.
📅 Official opening: Saturday, May 10th 3 p.m: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
📅 Official opening: Saturday, May 10th 3 p.m: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/peatlan...
📢 Exciting update! The @epaireland.bsky.social funded #CO2PEAT project introduces its ‘miniRECgap’ R-Package research!📉Designed for simple gap-filling of missing Eddy covariance #CO2 flux measurements: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/excitin...
April 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📢 Exciting update! The @epaireland.bsky.social funded #CO2PEAT project introduces its ‘miniRECgap’ R-Package research!📉Designed for simple gap-filling of missing Eddy covariance #CO2 flux measurements: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/excitin...
🌱 🙌 Our project updates continue! The #CO2PEAT project, funded by @epaireland.bsky.social, is dedicated to improving methodologies for reporting and verifying terrestrial #CO₂ removals and emissions from Irish peatlands. Find the most recent updates here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🌱 🙌 Our project updates continue! The #CO2PEAT project, funded by @epaireland.bsky.social, is dedicated to improving methodologies for reporting and verifying terrestrial #CO₂ removals and emissions from Irish peatlands. Find the most recent updates here: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
📢 Some exciting updates from @epaireland.bsky.social funded #ASPEN project using initial outputs to quantify how much #nitrogen leaves the ecosystem in the form of N2O. In collab with researchers from @teagasc.bsky.social , @tcddublin.bsky.social , #BnM & #NWPS: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
March 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📢 Some exciting updates from @epaireland.bsky.social funded #ASPEN project using initial outputs to quantify how much #nitrogen leaves the ecosystem in the form of N2O. In collab with researchers from @teagasc.bsky.social , @tcddublin.bsky.social , #BnM & #NWPS: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/updates...
💧 🌱 In honour of #WorldWaterDay 2025 (Saturday, 22nd March), we have highlighted some key roles peatlands play in maintaining water quality! peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-w...
March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
💧 🌱 In honour of #WorldWaterDay 2025 (Saturday, 22nd March), we have highlighted some key roles peatlands play in maintaining water quality! peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/world-w...