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Bear Meadows from the Ridge, Pennsylvania - October 18th 2025

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bog!

#hoping to post a bunch of plant photos from this work trip in the next few days!#wetlands #bogs #peatlands

In fact, all of the world's peatlands.

Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp, once a thriving wetland, is now being revived as an essential carbon sink to help combat climate change. Peatlands, like those in the swamp, cover only 3 percent of the Earth’s surface but store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined - which cover 30 percent of global land area. By restoring these unique ecosystems, researchers and conservationists aim to reverse centuries of damage caused by human activity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Peat is a spongy layer of partially decomposed plant material found in waterlogged, acidic environments like the Great Dismal Swamp. This natural carbon storage system has been severely degraded over time.

Since 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and conservation groups like The Nature Conservancy have been rewetting parts of the swamp to protect and rebuild its peat layers. This involves constructing dams and plugging drainage ditches to retain water, which slows peat decay and allows new organic material to accumulate.

Restoration efforts have already rehydrated 60,000 acres of the swamp. Over the next few years, The Nature Conservancy plans to restore an additional 33,000 acres and protect 10,500 acres in Virginia and North Carolina. These projects are funded by over $200 million from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The impact of Virginia’s peatlands will be environmentally significant: restoring them could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of removing up to 1.4 million cars from the road each year.

The secondary benefit is that wetlands like these are home to a diverse range of species, many of which are adapted to the unique, waterlogged environment. Restoring their habitat will enable both plants and wildlife to thrive once more.

Mike Waddington, a peat researcher at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, says: “When we think about storing carbon in ecosystems, it’s almost always about planting trees. There’s often tremendous pressure to plant trees in drained peatlands," he said, "but that’s the wrong choice given the carbon-storing ability of an intact bog." Adding: “In a way it’s the low-hanging fruit.”

The world's largest peatlands are in the central Congo Basin, covering 16.7 million hectares - more than five times the size of Belgium. Researchers reveal that these peatlands store between 26 and 32 billion tonnes of carbon - roughly the equivalent to three years’ worth of global fossil fuel emissions.

"Using peat moss as a wrap isnt vegan because its using up a non renewable resource from peat bogs"

"Well its better then eating meat"

NO ITS NOT!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE DESTROYING AN ENDAGERED ECOSYSTEM FOR A 1FT BY 1FT WRAP FILLED WITH SHIT THAT YOURE NOT EVEN GOING TO FINISH EATING. YOURE DESTROYING AN ECOSYSTEM WHILE TRYING TO SAY YOURE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE. USE A REGULAR FUCKING TORTILLA, ITS JUST FLOUR AND WATER AND SOME SALT, YOU CAN MAKE THAT YOURSELF I DO IT ALL THE TIME

YOU CANT CLAIM TO BE VEGAN AND CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT WHEN YOURE ACTIVELY DESTROYING THE MAIN NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE OF AN ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM

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bog day soon!

Sunday 28th July 2024 is World Bog Day!

You could celebrate these magnificent wetlands by:

Donating to and/or sign up to volunteer with your local wetland trust!

Some options: Turtle Island (USA): The Wetland Trust UK: Windfowl and Wetlands Trust So-called Australia: Woodlands and Wetlands Trust Aotearoa NZ: Wetlands NZ

Learning about the oral histories and stories about wetlands from your local indigenous people

Go visit a bog/wetland

Learning the words for wetlands/bogs in your local language

Playing one of my wetland themed ttrpgs! (I've written 7 and counting!)

Create your own bog themed ttrpg!

Write a bog themed story, or a story that takes place in a bog

Make a boggy cake (maybe just go for bog themed decoration, not the taste)

Make a zine about bogs/wetlands

Or anything else your heart desires!

Find out more about Bog Day, including seeing an events list in parts of the UK, here!

Happy bog day, fellow wetland appreciators! May I leave you with this blessing, GET BOGGED!

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Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an in

Yay! He's a very nice and friendly man. I got to meet him a couple of weeks ago at an event where he shared maps of all the rewilding they have done across Finland.