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IPCC information sheets - Raised Bogs
LOST PEATLAND HERITAGE The disappearance of the Irish bogs would have serious international consequences. For various plant and animal species the last western European ... Red Data Book, 1 Vascular Plants, The Stationery Office, Dublin. Cross, J.R. (1989) The Raised Bogs of Ireland, their Ecology, status and conservation, The Stationery Office, Dublin. Cross, J.R ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
But the oyster catcher will gain from flooding. The habitats most sensitive to climate change impacts are montane habitats and raised bogs, which are vulnerable to loss of suitable climatic conditions. To preserve wildlife, the study suggested schemes that could be used to provide buffer zones around protected areas or to ...
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IPCC Bogs & Fens of Ireland Conservation Plan 2005 - Conservation Strategy
Despite the small size of the country, within the Atlantic Biogeographic Region of Europe, Ireland possesses 51% of the raised bogs and 50% of the blanket bogs of conservation importance remaining in the region. Therefore we have an international obligation to protect peatlands. To protect what remains of Europe's peatland heritage, the EU has introduced a range ...
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IPCC information sheets - Where to bogs occur
For others it is already too late; all natural peatlands or bogs in the Netherlands and Poland have been lost; Switzerland and Germany each have only 500 hectares ... Parks and National Nature Reserves. In Northern Ireland, there have also been extensive losses of raised bogs with 10% (2,664ha) of the original area remaining of conservation interest. 14% of the ...
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KIWC Newsletter October 1998 VOL.7 (2/4)
Canada are organized into five classes. The first class, called the bog wetland class, contains basin bogs and blanket bogs. The second is the fen wetland class, which is characterized by a high groundwater ... and lakes. Prof. Warner said that wetlands along the Bekanbeushi River are truly unique in that raised bogs have developed in the center and a mixture of fens and swamp forests are observed ...
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Habitats
It hosts significant proportions of the European and biogeographical ranges of habitats such as estuaries, heaths and raised bogs, and also has some habitats such as Caledonian pine forest which are found nowhere else in the world. Over the last 50 years, terrestrial wildlife habitats have been significantly reduced in extent and their condition has ...
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Lowland Wetland
Whole-catchment planning for water resources and agriculture are especially important for bogs and fens. Active raised bogs and several types of fen are priority habitats under the EC Habitats ... sensing methods is being explored to estimate the current extent and condition categories of lowland raised bog in the UK and to set a baseline against which change can be measured. ...
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Wild Beauty of Bogs Tour
Raised bogs are found in the midlands or centre of Ireland and in the Bann River Valley. Blanket bogs are usually found in the mountains and in the west of Ireland, where there is enough rain to form a thin skin of peat across ...
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Do or Die - Voices from the Ecological Resistance - Issue 9
Digger-diving, machine sabbing and carnivorous plants! The successful direct action campaign to defend Britain's world important raised peat bogs. Insurrectionary Anarchy! (p. 258) You won't get your liberation from anyone else. Here's the theory from those fighting for themselves, and for revolution now! Sense of Place (p. 267) A meditation on ...
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Eco-Pros Wetlands Recovery
Service Credit: South Florida Water Management District Many great swamplands have disappeared due to human alteration. Nature Conservancies, Audubon and many other conservation organizations and local groups of citizens have raised funds to purchase wetlands in jeopardy in order to preserve and protect them for the future. Some of the remaining great swamp ecosystems of the U.S. are listed below ...
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