Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-11-06

Description

Description (EN):

The DESIRE project improves the management of drained peatlands around the Neman river to reduce their nutrient and greenhouse gas emissions. The Neman river basin serves as a model area for EU-Russia/non-EU cooperation. DESIRE rehydrates selected drained peatlands and establishes a sustainable form of land use. Such wetlands serve as filters for water running into the river. The project provides instruments and incentives for others to copy the approach, e.g. adapted river basin management plans and agri-environmental schemes.

Achievements (EN):

New tools to manage peatlands with a focus on water quality: DESIRE helped ministries of environment and agriculture, water management authorities, environmental protection agencies, agricultural advisory centres, and NGOs to make wise peatland management decisions on the catchment level, as well as on particular peatland sites. The functional tool to calculate rewetting requirements, the interactive online peatland database and the paludiculture strategy supported managing peatlands with a focus on water quality in the Neman river catchment. The partners analysed the river basin management plans for the Neman river, in particular, in Lithuania and Poland, and proposed how peatland rewetting could improve water quality. The partners also contributed to the consultation process of the strategic plan for the Common Agriculture Policy by preparing proposals for new agri-environmental schemes for wet peatland management, water retention and paludiculture. Rewetting peatlands: In Lithuania, the partners successfully restored the water level at three pilot peatland sites of Liepakojai, Ąžuoliniai and Beržinė in Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, which is a Natura 2000 area. They constructed regulatory dams on the draining channels in order to rewet the restoration sites and regulate water outflow. In order to maintain rewetted areas suitable for paludiculture, they also performed tree and shrub clearing and removal of stones. Almost 40 hectares of wetland were cleared and 10 m3 of stones were removed. Altogether, the works had a positive impact on 140 ha of peatlands in Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve, which were further managed by the farmers as part of agri-environmental schemes. The biomass from rewetted peatlands was used by local farmers for cattle fodder and as bedding material. In Russia, the preparation of the pilot plots Wittgirrenskoye and Visnevoye in the Kaliningrad region was done. The Wittgirrenskoye site was included in a national programme on carbon polygons for rewetting with national funds. https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/desire/

Website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/desire/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

Interactive map of peatlands in the Neman basin with several layers on distribution, status and land use online Strategy for paludiculture in the Neman basin Peatland chapters for RBMPs (drafts) Draft of agri-environmental schemes for nature-friendly paludiculture Report on economic effectiveness of paludiculture for nutrients retention Peatlands as nutrient sinks - publication and factsheet Report - manual for peatland rewetting Rewetted pilot peatlands Training, excursion and workshops on paludiculture

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Waterways, lakes and rivers

Specific Objective: ‘Clear waters’: To increase efficiency of water management for reduced nutrient inflows and decreased discharges of hazardous substances to the Baltic Sea and the regional waters based on enhanced capacity of public and private actors dealing with water quality issues

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

Investment Priority: (06b) investing in the water sector to meet the requirements of the Union's environmental acquis and to address needs, identified by the Member States, for investment that goes beyond those requirements

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald

Department: Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, chair of plant ecology, chair of Landscape Economy

Address: Domstraße 11, 17489 Greifswald, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uni-greifswald.de

Total budget: EUR 523 458.99

ERDF budget: EUR 392 594.24

Michael Succow Stiftung

Name: Michael Succow Stiftung

Department: Peatlands and Climate Change

Address: Ellernholzstrasse 1/3, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.succow-stiftung.de

Total budget: EUR 202 327.67

ERDF budget: EUR 151 745.75

Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie

Name: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie

Department: Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Address: ul. Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sggw.pl

Total budget: EUR 236 988.04

ERDF budget: EUR 201 439.83

Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków

Name: Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków

Department: Department of External Projects

Address: Odrowąża 24, 05-270 Marki, Poland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.otop.org.pl

Total budget: EUR 73 380.27

ERDF budget: EUR 62 373.22

Lietuvos gamtos fondas

Name: Lietuvos gamtos fondas

Address: Algirdo str.22-3, LT-03218 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.glis.lt

Total budget: EUR 212 228.70

ERDF budget: EUR 180 394.39

Государственное бюджетное учреждение Калининградской области "Природный парк "Виштынецкий"

Name: Государственное бюджетное учреждение Калининградской области "Природный парк "Виштынецкий"

Address: Sovetskiy prospect, 13-17 Kaliningrad , 236022 Kaliningrad, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vishtynec.gov39.ru

Total budget: EUR 268 050.00

ENI budget: EUR 227 842.50

Politechnika Białostocka

Name: Politechnika Białostocka

Department: Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Address: Wiejska 45 A, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pb.edu.pl

Total budget: EUR 150 042.25

ERDF budget: EUR 127 535.91

Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

Name: Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

Department: Agriculture Academy

Address: K. Donelaičio g. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vdu.lt

Total budget: EUR 49 606.40

ERDF budget: EUR 42 165.44

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TOUR - Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Michael Succow Foundation

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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The Polish Society for the Protection of Birds

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Lithuanian Fund for Nature

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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State budget Institution of the Kaliningrad region "Nature park "Vishtynetsky"

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Bialystok University of Technology

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Vytautas Magnus University

Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

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Summary

Project name (EN): Development of Sustainable (adaptive) peatland management by Restoration and paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman river catchment

Project acronym: DESIRE

Project start date: 2019-01-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 716 082.32

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 386 091.28

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.80%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 158 248.78.
ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 227 842.50.

Third-country contribution: 166 521.99

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Strategy and economic assessment of paludiculture for nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in the Neman River basin

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Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/desire/

Publication date: 2023-02-21

Document date: 2021-06-30

Languages: en

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