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Desmids of peatlands © Emma Goodyer
Latest News
Monitoring the mountain blackbird through Community Science
April 12, 2016
This spring sees the launch of Moors for the Future Partnership’s newest moorland wildlife survey - recording ring ouzel and redwing in the South Pennines.
These migratory thrushes - one migrating to the UK to breed in the summer, the other arriving in the autumn to overwinter - may act as good indicators of moorland health and a changing climate.
Airds Moss restoration near completion
March 31, 2016
The East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI) and partners RSPB have completed the final phase of bog enhancement works at Airds Moss, near Muirkirk.
Building a lasting legacy for our peatlands
March 9, 2016
One of the most important lessons learned from the wide range of peatland restoration activity over the last decade is the need for lasting local and national partnerships along with long term funding. If we want peatlands to be restored and managed sustainably for the benefit of society we can’t just throw money at them and walk away.
New landscape scale ‘Sustainable Management Scheme’ opens in Wales
March 8, 2016
On the 29th February an Expressions of Interest (EOI) window opened for the Sustainable Management Scheme (SMS); a brand new scheme funded through the Welsh Governments Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014-2020. The aim of the scheme is to support collaborative landscape-scale projects delivering action to improve our natural resources in a way which delivers benefits to farm and rural businesses and rural communities.
Cumbria BogLIFE share inventive restoration techniques
March 4, 2016
Within the last month, 57 professionals with an interest in peatland restoration have taken part in a series of workshops on lowland raised bog peatland restoration techniques organised by the Cumbria BogLIFE project.*
The workshops focussed on site visits to two degraded but contrasting bogs – Roudsea Wood & Mosses Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in the south of the county and Bolton Fell Moss SAC in the north east.
Sphagnum restoration trials in the pipeline….
March 3, 2016
The Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) is undertaking Sphagnum spreading trials in Nidderdale. The aim of the trials is to establish the most effective method to promote the growth of vital peat forming Sphagnum moss.
Raising The Standard
February 29, 2016
Alfred Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk covers a distance of 190 miles from St. Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire. The route is one of the most popular long-distance walks in the country and is packed with stunning scenery as it crosses the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and three National Parks.