Bog cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos). Credit Emma Hinchliffe
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Primary school pupils who have engaged with a project to restore ancient peatland and traditional wildlife to parts of the Afan and Rhondda Valleys have written and performed a catchy song about…
The South West Peatland Partnership won a Gold award at the Global Good Awards for their work restoring peatlands across Dartmoor, Exmoor, and Cornwall. This recognition celebrates large-scale…
To raise awareness of the global importance of peatlands during COP29 in November, we are currently seeking new content to update and re-curate the existing pavilion.
Jessica Gauld, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, is seeking participants to complete a short survey on the extent to which palaeoecological research is utilised in UK peatland…
Analysis reveals 250,000 hectares of peatland restoration activity over 30 years – way short of the 2-million-hectare target set for 2040.
Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park is to play host to the UK’s largest gathering of peatland experts at the annual IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference at the Macdonald Aviemore Resort from…
The full programme for the IUCN UK Peatland Programme 2024 conference ‘Peatlands, People and Nature’ is now available on the events page of our website.
Ideas are being invited for the CivTech programme, including a call for ideas to help the Peatland Code and Woodland Carbon Code.
From 1 November 2024, the fees charged to issue and convert units on the UK Land Carbon Registry are changing.
Flow Country, a large expanse of blanket bog in the north of Scotland, had been inscribed as the world’s first World Heritage Site peatland.
