Volunteers will help rehabilitate degraded peatlands in the Raja Musa Forest Reserve

The peer learning programme will be organized by the Indonesia component and supported by regional component via APFP-SEApeat projects.

A camping experience for Peatland Forest Rangers.

Progress Reporting by ASEC/RPEA

To register, send us your registration form by 10th May 2013.
For more information, contact the Secretariat (Balu Perumal or Sonny Wong) at 03-22879422 or email: hod.conservation@mns.org.my

For Peat’s Sake: Understanding the Vulnerability of the Tropical Peat Carbon Pool will be held at the Ken Edwards Building, Lecture Theatre 1, University of Leicester, University Road, on Tuesday 14 May at 5.30pm. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Progress Reporting by ASEC/RPEA

Wetlands and Water Management

Activities:
- Tree planting
- Canal blocking

Kindly register in advance to participate in this event. Thank you.

World Wetlands Day is an annual event which falls on 2nd February every year. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Objectives

To have an overview of ongoing research in peatland ecology, including community ecology (vegetation, soil organisms), carbon balance, palaeoecology, hydrology, microbial communities and soil functioning.

To understand the current challenges related to the management of peatlands: restoration projects, policy, dialogue with local communities and stakeholders

To discuss between scientists and peatland managers about the current research needs from the management and policy perspective.

To define emerging themes at the frontier between fundamental and applied research on peatlands.