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CANAPE: A new farm in Store Vildmose
29 June 2020For centuries peat has been an important resource, as people have drained the fens and bogs for land to produce food, and used the dried peat as a fuel. This leads to releases of CO2 from the dried pe…
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For a perfect sustainable sizzle, you need Broads Charcoal
11 June 2020How a unique charcoal burner in the Broads National Park is helping people switch to a more sustainable BBQ.
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So how do you build a sphagnum farm?
29 May 2020Farming moss might seem easy. The CANAPE project manager’s garden certainly has quite a lot growing without any human intervention. However, to produce a marketable quantity of crop, things are a litt…
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CANAPE celebrates International Day for Biodiversity
22 May 2020One of the things that immediately takes your breath away when entering a wetland that is even remotely close to good status, is the sheer volume of nature that overwhelms you.
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CANAPE: Learning in Lockdown
24 April 2020With schools out for a rather longer than anticipated summer, we need to find new ways to support learning about the importance of peat.
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CANAPE: Chasing down the fish (video)
19 March 2020Our trackers have been gathering data over the winter on fish movements in the Fryslan lakes
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CANAPE: A new dawn for Barver Moor
27 November 2019Over the last 20 years of drainage at Barver Moor, the land has fallen by a 30 - 50cm as the peat has degraded, boiling away into the atmosphere. This represents both a major source of CO2 emissions, …
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CANAPE: Hickling 2 - Return of the 20 tonne excavators
18 November 20197 months ago, having completed the first phase of our work on Hickling Broad at Chara Bay, we packed up and left the site for the summer. Now we are back for the 2nd season of work.
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CANAPE Partners Meet at the Grenspark
07 October 2019CANAPE partners came together amongst the beauty of the Grenspark Kalmthoutse Heide, on the Dutch Belgian Border. We were welcomed by Jan Weverbergh, coordinator of Grenspark Kalmthoutse Heide.
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CANAPE: Peat to the People
03 September 2019The island of Britain, even if all the industry and agriculture were removed, would remain a carbon emitter due to the level of peat drainage. The forests, fields and pristine wetlands do not absorb e…
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