--- title: "Drone over the Landvetter Airport | Återställ Våtmarker" url: "https://aterstallvatmarker.se/en/press/drone-over-the-landvetter-airport" date: 2025-06-23 modified: 2025-06-23 categories: - Flygaktioner --- # Drone over the Landvetter Airport | Återställ Våtmarker Press release Drone over the Landvetter Airport ================================= Published: 19.04.2025 Categories: Airport Actions **During Easter yet another action happened where Återställ Våtmarker flew a drone at Gothenburg Landvetter Airport. Anton, 29, and Edvin, 28, flew the drone at 30 m above the ground and then sat and awaited the police.** ![Collage of two images from the drone action over the runway at Landvetter Airport.](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/_processed_/7/d/csm_aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-och-anton-250419_094dfc788e.webp) – Our politicians have so far completely failed to handle the situation. That’s why normal people choose to act and break their passivity. The time to avoid disaster and collapse has already run out – but we will not give up. For every day that passes we, regular people, can fight to prevent a total extinction of all life on earth. Just close down the fucking peat mines! says Alfred Westh, press spokesperson at Återställ Våtmarker Peat is Sweden’s brown coal. Peat releases [more carbon dioxide](https://www.science.org/content/article/power-peat-more-polluting-coal-its-way-out-ireland) into the atmosphere than coal, oil and gas when it is mined, regardless if it’s burned as fuel or used as soil for plants. All this during the largest catastrophe in humanity’s history. Återställ Våtmarker’s goal is to get a total ban on peat mining, as stated on their [website](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/). – I am so insanely worried about the children and for our common future. I am a kindergarten teacher and I meet many children. Right now those children are being totally robbed of their right to a habitable planet, because us grownups are not acting. I am afraid but before all angry because the grown up world is letting the children down, says Anton Charles Karlsson, who took part in the action. - [![Aktivist från Återställ Våtmarker som styr en drönare över flygplatsen i Landvetter.](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/_processed_/7/c/csm_aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-250419_cbb94d70c3.webp)](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-250419.jpg)[Download aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-250419.jpg](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-250419.jpg) - [![Aktivist från Återställ Våtmarker som styr en drönare över flygplatsen i Landvetter.](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/_processed_/d/d/csm_aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-anton-250419_7818c4e4f1.webp)](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-anton-250419.jpg)[Download aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-anton-250419.jpg](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-anton-250419.jpg) - [![Activist from Återställ Våtmarker holding a banner reading ‘Ban peat extraction’ during the protest at Landvetter Airport.](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/_processed_/e/8/csm_aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-250419_31afc0607b.webp)](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-250419.jpg)[Download aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-250419.jpg](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-250419.jpg) - [![Collage of two images from the drone action over the runway at Landvetter Airport.](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/_processed_/7/d/csm_aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-och-anton-250419_a8a3cba00e.webp)](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-och-anton-250419.jpg)[Download aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-och-anton-250419.jpg](https://aterstallvatmarker.se/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktioner/2025/Flygplatser/2025-04-19_Landvetter/aterstall-vatmarker-landvetter-edvin-och-anton-250419.jpg) Press Contact --------------- - **Alfred Westh** [+46 (0)70 890 69 62](tel:+46708906962) Context / Background information ---------------------------------- ### **Facts about Peat** Peat is extracted from bogs. A peat bog is a place where dead organic material has been stored for thousands of years, enclosed in water. The carbon that has been stored is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when it comes into contact with oxygen during extraction. Peatlands cover only [3% of the Earth’s surface](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359746229_Handbook_for_assessment_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions_from_peatlands_Applications_of_direct_and_indirect_methods_by_LIFE_Peat_Restore) but store [twice as much carbon](https://siwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/the-essential-drop-to-reach-net-zero_key-messages-and-executive-summary.pdf) as all the world’s forests combined. Allowing peat bogs to [remain untouched](https://siwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/the-essential-drop-to-reach-net-zero_chapter-5.pdf) is vital in order to prevent the climate catastrophe from worsening. This can only be ensured through legislation banning peat extraction. Such a ban would be especially important in Sweden, [which has 15% of its land area covered by peatlands and, after Germany and Finland, is the third-largest producer of peat in the world.](https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-peat.pdf) **Återställ Våtmarkers** **campaign aims to** immediately pressure the government to ban destructive peat extraction, thereby banning foreign fossil fuel companies, such as the Finnish state-owned Neova, from operating in Sweden. Areas where peat extraction has occurred should be rapidly restored into thriving wetlands to immediately reduce Sweden’s emissions, protect against wildfires and drought, purify and replenish groundwater supplies, and increase biodiversity. **Återställ Våtmarker** **was founded in late March 2022**. It is a group of people using peaceful resistance to force the Swedish government to ban peat extraction and restore wetlands – the first necessary step to protect its population instead of destroying it. Återställ Våtmarker is part of an international resistance network, the [A22 Network](https://a22network.org/), active in 10 countries.**The vision of Återställ Våtmarker** is an improved democracy, where the people decide through citizens’ assemblies how our country can become free of pollution and emissions – a land where our children can grow up safe and healthy, a society where we live in harmony with nature and with one another.