Photo from Indonesia: Greenpeace activists working with locals to halt drainage by constructing dams on peatlands. This will prevent the peatland from drying out and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Peat-forming wetlands are an estimated 60% of all the wetlands distributed globally. Do peatlands remain in the “grey zone” seemingly unattractive to the conservation movement? I was reminded of Digging, the poem by Seamus Heaney: