
CongoPeat
@congopeat
Scientific program to understand the past, present and future of the world's largest tropical peatland complex. Led by @SimonLLewis, funded by @NERCScience.
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https://congopeat.net 11-05-2018 09:06:53
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Peatlands & river contribute to more than 60% of the economic value of the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities in the Cuvette and Sangha departments. #workshop #protect #livelihoods #peatlands #congo, CongoPeat Cassie Dummett Suspense Averti iFO Robert Nasi UNEP-WCMC


In the Republic of #Congo. #Indigenous #Peoples and local communities have been #sustainably foraging from the #peatlands for generations. Suspense Averti iFO Cassie Dummett CongoPeat UCL University of Leeds Prof Sue Page #WeAreTheUniversity 💙💚 International Peatland Society Robert Nasi Sonwa Denis Jean UNEP-WCMC UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 CIFOR-ICRAF

This is so spot on. Important efforts are underway to change this #CongoBasinScienceInitiative #CongoFlux Congo Basin Institute #SciencePanelForTheCongo and #PANGEA 🤞 Long-term survival of Congo’s biodiversity threatened by lack of local scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

We have TWO #postdoc opportunities on African forests and their changing ecology. With AfriTRON, ForestPlots and a dynamic group of tropical forest scientists University of Leeds Geography at Leeds Details: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Questions: [email protected]


We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) Q-ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: “African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing”. Deadline: 1st of December 2024. jobs.ugent.be/job-invite/279… Belspo Belgian Earth Observation Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

Calling all experts on #tropicalpeatlands! 📢Submit your abstracts to our session at #EGU25. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/… Apply by 02.12.24 for travel support- egu25.eu/guidelines/sup… Prof Sue Page #WeAreTheUniversity 💙💚 Euridice Honorio Nick Girkin Faculty of Science of Charles University @KewScience


Join our new GCBC project on biodiversity and tropical peatlands. We're hiring: 1. Full-time Post-Doctoral Research Associate careers.kew.org/vacancy/postdo… 2. Part-Time Project Manager careers.kew.org/vacancy/projec… @KewScience IIAP Suspense Averti iFO Corneille Ewango Tim Baker St Andrews Geography & SD




Greta Dargie gets our The Royal Society African peatlands meeting started with a review of state of knowledge on these globally important carbon-dense ecosystems CongoPeat



What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬
