Creating A New Approach to Peatland Ecosystems

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-01-25

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Description (EN):

Healthy peatlands help regulate the global climate by actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Conversely, damaged peatlands increase emissions. CANAPE brought local authorities, NGOs, and academic bodies together across the North Sea Region to jointly address challenges and discover how to manage sustainable, integrated peat landscapes that are resilient to climate change while contributing to reducing global CO2 emissions. CANAPE explored new ways to bring a range of benefits through improved peatland management: - Restoration of unique ecosystems; - Reduction of CO2 emissions; - Increased flood resilience; - Development of new wetland products.

Achievements (EN):

The CANAPE pilots restored 81 hectares of habitat securing over 500 tonnes of CO2 per year. Additionally, this provides added water storage of 172,000 cubic metres. These sites offer significant biodiversity benefits, plus the potential for some water cleaning services. In Lake de Leijen in the Dutch Province of Friesland, some fish species, such as bream, can make it harder to restore aquatic plant life and improve water quality due to their habit of whirling up the sediment in search of food. Via a network of “receivers” installed on wooden poles across the lake and trackers attached to fish, the team discovered hotspots for bream activity and identified the best places to start regenerating aquatic plants. The project trialled a range of sustainable production methods from wet soil. This included re-use of waste from nature conservation and constructing innovative farms to farm wetland products. The re-use of waste can help reduce the costs of nature conservation. One example of using waste material was a trial of charcoal made from wood from wetland management. Scrub clearance and tree removal is often a necessary part of conservation. Managers of nature reserves often burn their plant cuttings onsite, as there is no buyer willing to take it away due to its low value as firewood. CANAPE used a mobile charcoal retort to produce high quality charcoal that was sold locally and proved very popular with consumers. This will be an ongoing benefit of the project. The project also developed several citizen science approaches. Bioblitzes, where people spend 24 hours hunting for plant and animal species in an area, gave schoolchildren first-hand views of the conservation value of bogs. To gather data on peat depth, students carried out corings, building maps of peat depth in fens. In Germany, the public were asked to report sightings of tagged fish, to understand how far fish travel through the canal & river system, supporting our research pilot there.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/canape

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Develop new methods for the long-term sustainable management of North Sea ecosystems

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Broads Authority

Address: Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Rd, NR1 1RY Norwich, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk

Total budget: EUR 1 636 503.00

ERDF budget: EUR 818 251.00

VHL University of Applied Sciences

Name: VHL University of Applied Sciences

Address: Applied Research Centre Food & Dairy, Agora 1, PO Box 1528, 8901 BV Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hvhl.nl

Total budget: EUR 515 726.00

ERDF budget: EUR 257 863.00

Waterschap Hunze en Aa's

Name: Waterschap Hunze en Aa's

Address: Aquapark 5, Postbus 195, 9640 AD Veendam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hunzeenaas.nl

Total budget: EUR 1 001 556.00

ERDF budget: EUR 500 778.00

Landkreis Diepholz

Name: Landkreis Diepholz

Address: Niedersachesenstr. 2, 49356 Diepholz, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.diepholz.de

Total budget: EUR 503 399.00

ERDF budget: EUR 251 699.00

Naturstyrelsen

Name: Naturstyrelsen

Address: Møldrupvej 26, DK-9520 Skørping, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nst.dk

Total budget: EUR 627 095.00

ERDF budget: EUR 313 547.00

Natuurpunt Beheer vzw

Name: Natuurpunt Beheer vzw

Address: Coxiestraat 11, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.natuurpunt.be

Total budget: EUR 520 349.00

ERDF budget: EUR 260 174.00

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Broads Authority

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VHL University of Applied Sciences

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Regional Water Authority Hunze en Aa's

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Diepholz District

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Danish Nature Agency

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Summary

Project name (EN): Creating A New Approach to Peatland Ecosystems

Project acronym: CANAPE

Project start date: 2017-06-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 545 105.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 772 549.00

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

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