Care-Peat Portal

De Wieden (Netherlands)

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The pilot will be realized in the Dutch nature reserve area called “De Wieden”. The project makes De Wieden suitable to keep carbon in the soil and to reduce more carbon in the future. De Wieden is part of a national park in the Netherlands, in Steenwijkerland municipality of the province of Overijssel. Now the area is mentioned as a Natura 2000 area owned and managed by the private nature-conservationorganization Natuurmonumenten. In this pilot NM will create peat pits in De Wieden. By creating peat pits, more space becomes available for water plants to grow in these pits, these plants can capture carbon. In the peat pits space is also created for peat to grow and absorb carbon. The peat that comes from the new peat pits will be used to raise one of the foreshores, in Dutch called “vooroevers”. So the carbon that is stored in the peat will stay in the peat. By raising the foreshore, more water plants will grow on the foreshore. Through this process more carbon will be stored in the area.

If you want to review the data generated for the De Wieden test site during the Care-Peat project, please browse them in the data page.

The different scientifics maps developed for the De Wieden test site during the Care-Peat project can be found on the map page.

The laws and regulations that are relevant to the De Wieden test site are listed in the policies page.