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CANAPE (Creating a New Approach to Peatland Ecosystems) is a European funded Interreg North Sea Region project which aims to deliver peatland restoration; develop new peatland products and bring economic benefits.
CANAPE
Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme
The Broads Peat Discovery Project will help adapt to climate change and respond to the biodiversity crisis by creating solutions to barriers to peatland restoration.
Peatland Progress
A New Vision for the Fens tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and the anxieties of the next generation head-on by bringing together the north and south ‘halves’ of the Great Fen.
Care-Peat
Care-Peat is an Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project with 12 partners working together to reduce carbon emissions and restore the carbon storage capacity of different types of peatlands in North-West Europe.
Action now to invest in peatlands will avoid far greater future costs to businesses and wider society from climate change and environmental harm resulting from damaged peatlands.
IUCN UK Peatland code
Identifying cost-effective biochar application methods and biochar types to reduce input costs, whilst maximising carbon finance revenues by identifying management practices, that offers optimum carbon removal and storage.
Overcoming financial barriers with biochar integration
Developing the supply and processing of typha seed heads for use as an insulation material for outdoor clothing.
Typha seed heads for textile production
Promoting sustainable land use practices by introducing, developing and scaling Unmanned Aerial Agricultural techniques for Paludiculture.
Drone RePeat
Aiming to create a facility for paludiculture research, development, demonstration and knowledge transfer.
Paludiculture Innovation Project (PIP)
Unlocking paludiculture ‘the profitable production of wetland crops’ as a new opportunity for farmers in the Broads and Norfolk.
FibreBroads
Expanding Fenland SOIL’s opportunity mapping project to four new drainage boards using the methodology developed by Fenland SOIL
​Fenland SOIL Fens paludiculture opportunity exploration
Promoting paludiculture in the North West region by actively engaging with the farming demographic to develop the paludiculture knowledge base.
OPENpeat
One of the first field-scale trials of growing a typha crop on re-wet agricultural peat for the production of a sustainable and eco-friendly replacement of synthetic fibres for use in padded jackets.
Boggy bulrushes
This project is using willow to determine the best practices for the sustainable production of a commercial crop whilst protecting and preserving the peat on West Sedgemoor, Somerset.
Willow production
FWAG-SW are leading a partnership to take Typha to commercial scale in Somerset with studies ranging from establishment to biomass harvesting.
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Taking Typha to scale on the Somerset Levels and Moors
The production of sphagnum as a sustainable growing media to replace peat whilst supporting lowland peat farmers with this sustainable, profitable Sphagnum crop for their land.
Sphagnum farming – the green alternative to peat
