Aim of the project is to re-establish the active raised bog habitats and site hydrology in the areas that are influenced by drainage and to protect the raised bog habitats, plants and animals of European and Latvian importance.

Field trip with Elm Media 19/08/2010 00:00

On August 10th to 12th, 2010 the project team together with foundation Elm Media who is shooting a film about the project went on a field expedition to the Rožu and Aklais Mires Nature Reserves. They project sites were visited and interviews taken from the local inhabitants living next to mires. Project team – project manager Mara Pakalne, project assistant Aivars Slišāns and field manager Gunārs Balodis, experts for Aklais Mire Nature Reserve Nature including the coordinator of management plan Jānis Reihmanis and habitat expert Uvis Suško participated in the field trip.

More information about the field expedition can be read in Elm Media website in the article "Mire expedition" (in Latvian).


Tags

D5, A1

Finansed by

Raised Bogs – LIFE08 NAT/LV/000449

Project duration: 01.02.2010.- 31.08.2013.
Funding: European Commission LIFE+ programme
Beneficiary: University of Latvia
Partners: Latvian Fund for Nature, Foundation ELM MEDIA
Co-funding: Ministry of the Environment of Latvia, Ltd. Rīgas meži

Project film "Mires Uncovered"

 

 

Exhibition

 

Exhibition "Secrets of Mires" is traveling around! It is made by Ogre Photo Club.