Carmarthenshire’s peat bogs are helping with climate change!
A project has begun to reveal the mysteries locked away in areas of peat bog within the county. These sites make up a project funded by Welsh Government and the county council.
Experts have been studying the bog habitats that make up six areas of common land near Brechfa and Llanfynydd and have discovered that at two of the sites – Pyllau Cochion and Figyn commons – the peat was more than 8.5m thick. This tells us that the formation of peat at theses Carmarthenshire bogs has been more or less continuous since the last ice age.
From calculations made from the results it has been calculated that the amount of carbon stored in the peat equates to the direct carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions from driving for the population of Carmarthen town for 8.6 years!
With concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere growing rapidly in the last couple of years it is ever more important to manage these bogs so that they can continue to store carbon for us.
Through this project and future research it is hoped that these bogs will slowly reveal their secrets to us.
It is supported by the Carmarthenshire Environment Partnership, a network of organisations based in the county who are working together to promote and encourage environmental sustainability issues.
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