Peatlands, Climate and Paludiculture

What's a peatland? Why are peatlands dry but should be rewetted? Why is this important to us and the global climate? How can we protect and simultanously use wet peatlands - especially in the Batlics? All answered and beautifully animated in this film.
Sources
This film was prepared in the EUKI Project “Carbon capturing by Baltic farmers”
www.succow-stiftung.de/en/pea...
Information on impact of peatland drainage and conventional agricultural peatland use, rewetting and paludiculture - Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC) authors collective - www.greifswaldmoor.de
Data of GHG emission from drained peatland under agricultural use in the EU and the Baltic countries: National Inventory Report (NIR) 2019, GMC 2019
www.greifswaldmoor.de/files/d...
Credits
Graphics by Sarah Heuzeroth - www.sarah-heuzeroth.de
Speaker Christopher Gray
Animation and film design by BioFilm - www.bio-film.org
Photos:
A.Haberl - Michael Succow Foundation, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC)
R.Hurding - ZELFO® Technology GmbH
C.Lühr - Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB)
S.Manzel - Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC)
A.Nordt - Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC)
P.Schroeder - www.lensescape.org
J.Schulz - www.PALUDiMED.eu
Disclaimer
This film was prepared in the frame of the project “Carbon capturing by Baltic peatland farmers” which is financed by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI). EUKI is a project financing instrument by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It does so through strengthening cross-border dialogue and cooperation as well as exchange of knowledge and experience. The authors are fully responsible for the content of this film, the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action have no liability.

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

The low land varieties of rice in my native is cultivated in paddy fields a peat basin, which is below mean sea level. The place is even known as the rice basket of the state. Between each production season, the flooded fields are full of water lillies and lotus and attracts a lot of local tourists. Keeping the peat basin's usage restricted to flooded usage is not just important to keep the Carbon sequestered, but also to maintain groundwater levels. They are both, the geological setting for coal formation as well as the setting that balance the seawater groundwater barrier. The low lying peatland are natural groundwater recharging sites, when they have the flooded water to speed up the infiltration rate. If that water is drained, the groundwater levels will drop, which means the seawater barrier will progress further inland and cause severe damage to flora and the soil. It's so important, that our government classified paddy fields themselves as wetland and conversion of paddy fields for any other use is banned, else real estate lobbies will destroy everything. That is the reason why I get so incredibly pissed off at, ill informed content creators, now grossly generalizing and demonizing all the paddy cultivated rice 'methane pollutors', irrespective of whether they are from lowland or highland, with no nuanced presentation on anything metioning the hydrogeological significance of them or even the existance of methanotropic bacteria in wetlands and paddy field that consume methane. Their selective presentation and campaign would, if effective will kill the revenue of the paddies forcing them to sell the land for other use and literally do more harm to environment, literally destroy any carbon sequestering potential of that land as well as destroy even the chance of revival as if you get damaged by infiltration of salt water. P.S: Don't villify low land paddies

[@davidcanatella4279]

The lesson is, don’t change peatlands, prairies, marshes, forests, tundra and deserts to fit culture, change culture to fit into peatlands, prairies, marshes, forests, tundra and deserts.🥳

[@davidmende3409]

huh, i didn't know peatlands were THAT crazy, but holy shit, the impact is so oversized, im wondering why this hasn't been the top priority for conservation all this time

[@pisscow6395]

Amazing video! Great explanation and animation! Definitely needs more views!

[@greifswaldmoor]

Great thanks! Spreading very welcome!

[@user-bh1fo2wg1g]

FDR’s “Green New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps did Wetland Restoration around here, ( and other mini eco restoration) almost a Century ago, Imagine what We CAN DO NOW ?!?!?

[@dongoldney]

Great video , I love the highlands and photographing it

[@NavigatEric]

Very nice graphics, Sarah. Well done. So the Netherlands are a prime paludiculture area? I thought/hoped the video would be in German.

[@ulrichhavighorst4286]

Um wie viel ließe sich der CO² Eintrag in die Atmosphäre reduzieren, wenn wir statt dieser 5% Landfläche 10% wieder zu Moorflächen renaturieren würden?

[@greifswaldmoor]

Die stark vereinfachte Antwort ist: Moore bedecken natürlicher Weise 3% der Erdoberfläche. Sie sind über extrem lange Zeiträume entstanden. Neue Moore einfach schnell darüber hinaus zu vermehren ist daher kein gangbarer Weg. Deswegen müssen wir intakte Moore schützen und trockengelegte Moore wiedervernässen. Weitere Informationen zu allen Mooraspekten gibt es hier: www.moorwissen.de/

[@wolfgangeyre6265]

*Promo sm*

[@ericliu5491]

Why not use radiation to kill the aerobic microbes. The trees In Chernobyl are not decomposing because the aerobic microbes where killed off by the radiation given off by all the Cesium 137.

[@loner4033]

Technical that could work, but think about how much radiation we need to have XD.

[@ericliu5491]

@@loner4033 There is plenty of radioactive elements that can be sourced from spent nuclear fuel. As proven by Chernobyl Cesium 137, Strontium 90, and Iodine 131 are the most effective at killing decomposing microbes. The radiation should be emitted from canisters placed in shallow boreholes to avoid killing vegetation.