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SUMMARY:Congo's hidden peatlands - Prof Simon Lewis (University College Lo
 ndon)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180309T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In 2017 the first map of the peatlands of the central Congo Ba
 sin was published\, showing them to be the world’s largest tropical peat
 land complex. Beneath the swamp forests in the second largest wetland in t
 he tropics is 145\,000 km2 of peat - an area about the size of England - t
 hat has been forming for 10\,000 years\, and currently stores approximatel
 y 30 billion tonnes of carbon - equivalent to 20 years of USA fossil fuel 
 emissions. This talk tells the five-year journey to their discovery and pu
 blication concluding with the impact the new information has had on priori
 ties for conservation in Central Africa. \n\nSimon Lewis is Professor of G
 lobal Change Science at the University of Leeds and University College Lon
 don. A plant ecologist by training\, he focuses on changes to the Earth sy
 stem with a central focus on the tropics. He founded and co-manage the Afr
 ican Tropical Rainforest Observatory\, AfriTRON (www.afritron.org)\, a net
 work of long-term tropical forest inventory sites across 13 countries in A
 frica\, and co-manages the long-term forest inventory data repository and 
 data management tool forestplots.net. His work on the Congo peatlands has 
 led to new efforts to better manage them in both the Republic of Congo and
  Democratic Republic of Congo.  \n\nSpeakers:\nProf Simon Lewis (Universit
 y College London)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Herbertson Room)\, off South Parks Road O
 X1 3QY
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