Langlands Moss Restoration works underway
Peatland restoration underway to help restore Local Nature Reserve - Langlands Moss and surrounding woodland habitats.
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Call for proposals for Water Research Seminar Series
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme and the Environment Agency are delighted to announce a series of workshops for 2025 aimed at highlighting the importance of the water environment within the peatland…
Conference Series
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme provides a valuable convening function.
Our annual conferences present opportunities for policy makers, scientists, land managers and practitioners from different disciplines to share their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of peatland conservation and management.
Our annual conferences present opportunities for policy makers, scientists, land managers and practitioners from different disciplines to share their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of peatland conservation and management.
Peat Metal webinar series 2024
Throughout 2024, the Peat Metal project ran a series of workshops and webinars on fire and peatlands, available to watch on their website.
Ordinary moss
Ordinary moss is very common in gardens and woodlands. moss provides shelter for many minibeasts, so encourage it to grow in your garden by providing logs, stone piles and untidy areas.
Introducing our species showcases
Throughout 2024, we are celebrating peatland biodiversity through a series of monthly showcases featuring a particular peatland species or species group. Our first showcase introduces the Sphagnum…
Marsh hair moss
The marsh hair moss is the largest moss in the UK. Look out for it in damp woodland and on boggy heathlands where it forms large, green and spikey 'cushions'.
Yorkshire Peat Partnership: A music video on Fleet Moss
With the help of Yorkshire Peat Partnership, musician Sarah Smout filmed a music video on Fleet Moss which aims to raise awareness of the importance of peatlands.
Sphagnum moss
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…
The Peat Café 2023-24: an online, interdisciplinary lunchtime lecture series
Join the University of Glasgow’s ‘Peat Café’ lunchtime lecture series for a round-up of celebration events, community creativity, education and bog restoration projects.
Marches Mosses marks 30-year milestone in fight against climate change
An internationally important lowland raised peat bog between England and Wales celebrates its 30th birthday as a National Nature Reserve (NNR) and its slow return to a natural environment.
Species Showcase: Sphagnum
Sphagnum mosses are some of the most important peat-forming organisms in the UK. Healthy, low-nutrient peatlands, such as blanket bogs and raised bogs, are characterised by dense carpets of Sphagnum consisting of a multitude of individual plants. These provide a structurally complex substrate in which other organisms can thrive. Sphagnum can also be an important component of ground cover in a variety of fen types, as well as in wet woodlands ranging from fen alder carr to Atlantic oak and birch woods.