Partnership investment worth more than £1m protects unique moorland in the Peak District National Park

May 17, 2017

Protected moorland in the Peak District National Park is thriving once more thanks to specialist partnership conservation works worth £1.2 million.

Three years of work by the Moors for the Future Partnership, funded by Natural England through the EU Agri-Environment Programme, finished on Friday 31st March, to revive and safeguard Saddleworth moor (on the Pennine Way) in Greenfield, and Deer Hill Moss in Meltham.

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Saddleworth and Deer Hill Moss

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