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Growing a Movement for Bottom-Up Peatland Protection

Friday 28 August 2026

Reflections from the Third Biennial International Workshop of the Venice Agreement on Peatlands, Kisumu, Kenya.

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Sinking In: How Young People Connected with Peatlands at Peat-Fest South-West

Monday 19 January 2026

In our latest guest blog, two of the young people who took part in Peat-Fest South-West share their experiences of this regional celebration of peatland heritage.

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Beginnings: First Peat-Fest South-West bogcast published

Friday 26 September 2025

In our latest guest blog, the Art and Energy Collective's Naomi Wright introduces Peat-Fest South-West's 'bogcasts'.

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Bogcasts
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Alana and Ezra (1)
Anna Chilvers (1)
BeadaMoss (1)
Caroline Vitzthum (1)
Dylan Young (1)
Emma Hinchliffe (2)
Felix Brockley-Hatch (1)
Henry Jones (1)
In-Situ (1)
IUCN UK Peatland Programme (2)
Jess Fìor-Berry (2)
Jessica Gauld (1)
Jim McAdam (1)
Naomi Wright (1)
Peat-Fest South-West (1)
Sarah Smout (1)
Tom Aspinall (1)

ACE Bogs (1)
Anna Chilvers (1)
Art and Energy (1)
artwork (1)
BeadaMoss (1)
biodiversity (1)
Bogcasts (1)
Bringing Peat to Life (1)
burning (3)
Clare Shaw (1)
climate change (1)
community (1)
community engagement (3)
compost (1)
creative arts (1)
Dartmoor (1)
data (1)
deep peat (1)
Defra (1)
engagement (3)
event (1)
events (2)
Falkland Islands (1)
fire (2)
Global Peatlands Initiative (1)
grazing (1)
heather (1)
Henry Jones (1)
Horticultural peat (1)
horticulture (1)
In-Situ (1)
Jim McAdam (1)
land use (1)
musician (1)
NatureScot Peatland ACTION (1)
palaeoecology (1)
paludiculture (1)
peat extraction (1)
Peat-Fest South-West (4)
peat-free (1)
Peat4People (1)
Peatland Code (1)
Peatland Exchange Tags (1)
peatland management (1)
peatland monitoring (2)
peatland research (2)
peatland restoration (5)
poetry (1)
policy (1)
public funding (1)
Publication (1)
Queen's University Belfast (1)
RE-PEAT (4)
RSPB (1)
Sarah Smout (1)
Scotland (1)
shallow peat (1)
sheep (1)
Sphagnum (1)
sphagnum moss farming (1)
The Art and Energy Collective (1)
The Bovey Birder (1)
UK peatland resource (1)
University of Leeds (1)
Upland fens (1)
Venice Agreement (1)
water (1)
water environment (1)
water monitoring (1)
wet farming (1)
wildfire (2)
windfarms (1)
Yorkshire Peat Partnership (1)

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Blog: community engagement

Growing a Movement for Bottom-Up Peatland Protection

Sinking In: How Young People Connected with Peatlands at Peat-Fest South-West

Beginnings: First Peat-Fest South-West bogcast published

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