Sustainable management
Fully functioning, healthy peatlands with complex biodiversity can provide a multitude of different opportunities for farming, sporting or recreation.
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Ugie Peatland Partnership and Beam Suntory Landowner event
In February 2023, RSPB as part of the Ugie Peatland Partnership, hosted an event, co-organised and funded by Beam Suntory, to bring together landowners with peatlands in the Ugie catchment.
Peatland ACTION launches free interactive data mapping tool
NatureScot Peatland ACTION has launched the first interactive peatland restoration data mapping portal of its kind for Peatland ACTION restoration sites in Scotland.
Sphagnum is a key ingredient of natural flood management
In 2008 iCASP published research that showed how water running over Sphagnum on blanket peatlands moved much more slowly (often ten times slower) than water running through sedges or bare peat.…
Peat restoration and natural flood management
The Upland Environments Research Unit at the University of Manchester has been working closely with Moors for the Future Partnership over the last decade to produce an empirically grounded…
Peat-free growing media - Promoting long-term growth and sustainable business
Peat as a growing medium ingredient is becomingly increasingly unacceptable and this has led in recent years to more and more use of peat-free growing media.
A burning issue: comparison between Australian & UK fire management misses the mark
Inappropriate comparisons between the management of the fires in Australia and the use of fire in moorland management in the UK.
New guidance for wetter farming on peatlands
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme’s latest briefing, ‘Principles for Sustainable Peatland Paludiculture’, sets out to ensure the multiple benefits of peatlands are realised when managing different…
Adaptive management
Fully functioning, healthy peatlands with complex biodiversity can provide a multitude of different opportunities for farming, sporting or recreation.
Conference 2020
This, the 10th annual IUCN UK Peatland Programme conference, ‘Peatlands: From Strategy to Action’ was hosted as a virtual event in partnership with the Welsh Peatland Sustainable Management Scheme (SMS) Project.
Conference 2024: Peatlands, People and Nature
‘Peatlands, People and Nature’, was the theme for our 2024 conference held in Aviemore, Scotland, between 17 - 19 September.
Peatland Code
The Peatland Code is a voluntary standard for UK peatland projects wishing to market the climate benefit of restoration.
The Peatland Code provides assurance and clarity for business and other investors in peatland restoration projects through independent validation and verification. The Peatland Code works on the basis that during restoration, carbon savings are made through rapid emissions reductions.
The Peatland Code provides assurance and clarity for business and other investors in peatland restoration projects through independent validation and verification. The Peatland Code works on the basis that during restoration, carbon savings are made through rapid emissions reductions.