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MINSK, 16 June (BelTA) – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and South Korea will support peatland rewetting in Gomel Oblast, Deputy Head of the Biological and Landscape Diversity Office of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry Andrei Kuzmich told journalists on 16 June, BelTA has learned.
“The project provides for rewetting of peatlands in Khoiniki District and Kalinkovichi District of Gomel Oblast in 2020. The work will be carried out with support of the South Korean government and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in line with the second stage of the project ‘Restoration of Drained Peatlands in Belarus'. We have successfully signed the relevant agreement and got down to the national registration of the project, right ahead of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought,” Andrei Kuzmich noted.
The main activities under the project are set to be finished by the end on 2020. Plans are in place to re-swamp at least 2,000 hectares of peatlands.
In 2018-2019, Belarus carried out rewetting of more than 1,000 hectares of peatlands in the southeast of Mogilev Oblast (Cherikov District and Kostyukovichi District) under the “Restoration of Drained Peatlands in Belarus” project.
Environmental rehabilitation of drained peatlands through their rewetting helps prevent peat fires, improve local environmental situation, and create conditions for habitation of protected and economically valuable plant and animal species.
