Final thoughts

Bio

The WetFutures project unites diverse communities who are working to preserve peatlands in Ireland for their environmental and cultural value. Due to their low oxygen conditions, peatlands preserve archaeological specimens like the Iron Age timber trackway that Benjamin Gearey shared in an image. We can see how these environments are ‘archives’ of natural history and heritage.

WetFutures is a group of European archaeologists, geographers and social scientists, based across Ireland, UK and the Netherlands; with a collective interest in the protection, promotion and engagement of all things related to wetland heritage.

Answers by Dr Benjamin Gearey, Rosie Everett (University College Cork, Ireland) and Dr Kim Davies (Bournemouth University). WetFutures (Ireland) is funded by the Heritage Council via The JPICH Heritage in Changing Environments Scheme.

Links

Web: www.wetfutures.eu/about.html

Twitter: @wetfutures