{"id":13969,"date":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/endurheimt-votlendis-i-hafnarfirdi\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:10","slug":"restoration-of-a-wetland-in-hafnarfjordur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/endurheimt-votlendis-i-hafnarfirdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetland restoration in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Practical work on wetland restoration in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk and Bleiksm\u00fdri began at the start of the week, covering an area of around sixty hectares. The work in Bleiksm\u00fdri was completed yesterday, and work in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edkerm\u00fdri begins today. The Wetland Fund has estimated, based on its calculations, that the works will sequester around 1,100 tonnes of carbon in the soil, equivalent to the annual emissions from 120 passenger cars. It is estimated that around 66% of greenhouse gas emissions in Iceland come from disturbed wetlands, making this a very important societal project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Environment and Operations Council approved the Wetlands Fund's request for a permit for wetland restoration in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk at its meeting on 11 September. Restoration works have already begun and cover Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk Mere and Bleiksm\u00fdri. In Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk Mere, this involves a new project to restore the land to its former state. In Bleiksm\u00fdri, however, the work involves maintaining a previous restoration action carried out in 2016 under an agreement between Landgr\u00e6\u00f0slan and the Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Through an agreement between the Wetlands Fund and the Landgr\u00e6\u00f0slan, responsibility for the project was transferred to the Wetlands Fund, which is also the implementing body for restoration in the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part of the council's measures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This implementation is in line with the ideas and actions proposed in the Environmental and Natural Resource Policy of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which was approved by the City Council of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur on 18 May 2018. The stated aim of the policy is to ensure all residents of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur have a healthy and safe environment for living, playing and working, and it is to be taken into account in all the municipality's activities. The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur therefore aims, among other things, to be at the forefront of sustainability and environmental matters, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the generation of waste.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/media\/stefnur-og-reglur\/umhverfis-og-audlindastefna_final-web_lowres.pdf\/\">See the Environmental and Resource Policy of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><em><strong>Photograph accompanying the news story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/votlendi.is\/\">Wetland Fund<\/a><\/em><\/sup><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verklegar framkv\u00e6mdir vi\u00f0 endurheimt votlendis \u00ed Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edkur- og Bleiksm\u00fdri h\u00f3fust \u00ed vikubyrjun og n\u00e1 \u00fe\u00e6r yfir um sext\u00edu hektara sv\u00e6\u00f0i. Framkv\u00e6mdum \u00ed Bleiksm\u00fdri lauk \u00ed g\u00e6r og hefjast framkv\u00e6mdir \u00ed Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edkurm\u00fdri \u00ed dag. Votlendissj\u00f3\u00f0ur hefur me\u00f0 \u00fatreikningum s\u00ednum \u00e1\u00e6tla\u00f0 a\u00f0 umr\u00e6ddar framkv\u00e6mdir bindi um 1.100 tonn af kolefni \u00ed j\u00f6r\u00f0u sem nemur akstri 120 f\u00f3lksb\u00edla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13969"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}