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High-er five for Peatlands in Wales

Friday 5 December 2025

An ambitious plan to support peatland restoration in Wales over the next five years was unveiled on World Soil Day (5 December 2025).

Deforested bog restoration 2 years post-treatment Whitelee. Cotton-grass (Eriophorum) and wind turbine

Policy Update: UK Government on Environment & Energy

Wednesday 3 December 2025

In the past few weeks, the UK Government has released three significant publications — with peatland restoration at the heart of their commitments for environment and energy.

A small mountain lake with emergent vegetation in Cumbria.

Expression of Interest Opens for Defra-Commissioned Peatland Evidence Review

Monday 1 December 2025

The IUCN UK Peatland Programme (IUCN UK PP) is pleased to launch the Expression of Interest (EOI) process for a major Defra-commissioned project: Strengthening the Evidence Base for Peatland…

Cover of the Northern Ireland Peatland Strategy showing a bog landscape

A pivotal moment for Northern Ireland's peatlands as their Peatland Strategy to 2040 is launched

Thursday 18 September 2025

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir has launched Northern Ireland’s first Peatland Strategy setting out a pathway for peatland conservation and restoration over the next 15 years.

Researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from across Europe sitting in groups of 8 to 10 people at three tables discussing ways to standardise the collection of environmental data to better understand how peatlands respond to climate change, land use and restoration to inform policy and practice.

New initiative to combine data across studies and sites to better inform peatland policy and practice

Thursday 23 May 2019

Researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from across Europe took part in a workshop in Newcastle to begin the process of finding a way to standardise the collection of environmental data so it…

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High-er five for Peatlands in Wales

Policy Update: UK Government on Environment & Energy

Expression of Interest Opens for Defra-Commissioned Peatland Evidence Review

A pivotal moment for Northern Ireland's peatlands as their Peatland Strategy to 2040 is launched

New initiative to combine data across studies and sites to better inform peatland policy and practice

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