Indiana Drawdown Solution #13 – Peatlands – Little River Wetlands Project

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Did you know that peatlands — aka bogs or mires — only make up 3% of the Earth’s land area but store twice the amount of carbon as all of the world’s forests? Protecting them is an immense opportunity to manage global greenhouse gases.

And did you know Indiana has many peatlands? Little River Wetlands Project is one of the organizations that protects this critical “carbon sink.” They just added 35 acres, expanding Eagle Marsh to 791 acres in total.

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