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Desmids of peatlands © Emma Goodyer
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Cinderella will go to the ball, but she’ll be wearing hiking boots, not glass slippers!
October 4, 2017
Fairy-tale in Edale as rare habitat is celebrated at festival-style conference in remote Peak District village.
This September, nearly 300 international experts in peatlands came together to learn, share and celebrate the wonder of bogs at BogFest, a conference delivered with a festival atmosphere.
Peatland Management and Conservation in Latvia
September 28, 2017
Latvia is a relatively small peatland nation in comparison to Scotland. However, the ailments of Latvian peatlands are strikingly similar: pressures from forestry plantations, drainage, peat extraction for fuel and horticulture plus the added pressures of climatic change all resonated with me. The scale of the Latvian landscape feels vast and their forest and peatland habitats much larger and less fragmented than those in Scotland. They feel truly wild. Perhaps this is the way they once were in the UK?
Lake Kaņieris
Maximise the Impact of your Research with Conservation Evidence
September 27, 2017
How well did your last conservation project go? What were the lessons that you learned? And who did you share those lessons with? We all know that it can be hard to test how well your project worked, but the Conservation Evidence workshop at BogFest this year showed that even simple studies can reveal a lot – and that it is crucial to share these findings with other conservationists.
Habitat Restoration in England's Hills and Mountains: A Novel Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technology
September 25, 2017
The Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) have been using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) since 2012 to survey and map areas of degraded upland habitats throughout the mountains and hills of the low-rising Pennine mountain range in northern England.
Climate Benefits of Peatland Restoration to be Certified by Newly Appointed Independent Body
September 19, 2017
The IUCN UK National Committee has approved a certification body to validate and verify peatland restoration projects under the Peatland Code for their climate benefits.
Lowland Peatland Systems in England and Wales – Evaluating Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Carbon Balances
September 12, 2017
The final report of Defra’s Lowland Peat project has now been published online.
A Year in the Life of the Peak District and South Pennine Uplands
September 11, 2017
Today, 11 September, Moors for the Future Partnership publishes its first annual report. Illustrated with stunning photos of the Peak District and South Pennines, the partnership’s Year in Review is packed with stories that give a flavour of the work completed by the award-winning partnership in the last financial year.
National Policy Statements public consultationOpportunity to contribute to public consultation on National Policy Statements to support Clean…
Public consultation on heather and grass burning regulations in EnglandThe IUCN UK Peatland Programme has responded to Defra’s proposal to protect a greater extent of…
New Peat Map for EnglandThis week Natural England published the much anticipated England Peat Map which highlights the…
Peatland motion headed to World Conservation Congress for considerationThe IUCN UK Peatland Programme-led motion to develop a unified definition of peatlands has…
