FAO joined the Fourth Meeting of the Partners of the Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI4). Co-hosted by the Government of Peru and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the meeting was held under the theme Peatlands as livelihoods and the conditions for their conservation and sustainable management.

Peatlands – which include bogs, fens, mires, and swamps – are wetland ecosystems with a unique type of soil formed from plant material that has only partially decomposed under waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions.

Stronger monitoring systems are supporting efforts across Indonesia to protect and restore carbon-rich peatland landscapes.

Around the Amazonian city of Iquitos — the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon — lie some of the largest and best-preserved tropical peatlands on the planet. 

FAO and national experts from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of the Congo recently concluded two technical workshops on peatland monitoring.