Items Tagged 'Peatland'

• Net-zero for land virtually impossible without more ambition on peatlands, says CPRE
• New research highlights what farmers want from new peatland strategy
• The work of Yorkshire Peat Partnership and why it matters
• Government under increasing pressure to ban burning on England’s peatlands
• New analysis shows that burning of moorlands is the biggest threat to England’s most important places for wildlife
• Restoring peatland on Skye
• England’s ‘national rainforests’ to be protected by new rules
• BASC responds to Government announcement on heather burning
• Time for government to unleash the power of peatlands to tackle the climate emergency, says CPRE
• Partial peat-burning ban positive as a first step, but limits and loopholes leave cause for climate concern
• Managed burning can benefit peatland, new study suggests
• Breathing LIFE back into our rare bogs in Wales
• Weak ban could leave England’s peatland moors burning during critical climate talks
• Peatland restoration fund tackles global climate crisis
• Survey of top retailers: only one of 20 says they will eliminate peat this year
• Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme
• Dales peatland ‘a stirring scene of restoration’
• Government plans for nature and net zero announced today
• NatureScot urges gardeners to go peat-free
• Better peatland management could cut half a billion tonnes of carbon
• Unleash nature’s potential: Nature restoration could generate £6.4 billion a year in benefits to the UK
• Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme: Discovery Grants open to fund the development of restoration projects
• Peatland Progress Heritage Horizons Award
• Satellites track "bog breathing" to help monitor peatlands
• Scotland’s climate targets are at risk of going up in smoke
• Unlocking contractor capacity to lock up carbon in the Cairngorms
• Plans to phase out the use of peat in the amateur horticulture sector
• Major grant to help capture carbon in the Broads
• New multi-million-pound projects to conserve Welsh rivers and bogs
• Planting on damaged peatland at Armboth Fell will help tackle climate change and restore habitat for wildlife
• UK horticulture sector reports significant drop in the use of peat
• How restoring Wales’ bogs is improving water and wildfire security during dry weather
• Restoration of peatlands: Flooding is not the ideal solution
• “Superhero’’ sphagnum moss reduces flood risk
• Biodiversity Deep Dive prompts Welsh Government to triple peatland restoration in nature recovery promise
• LIFEquake project launch
• Maximising Manchester’s Mosslands
• Vital funding secured for the ‘discovery’ of North West’s peatlands
• Pioneering peat team for the region
• North West net zero ambitions boosted thanks to peatland partnership
• No ‘one size fits all’ heather management method for protecting carbon-rich peatlands
• Welsh economy boosted by wide-ranging benefits of peatland project
• Wildfire and drainage accelerate carbon loss from northern peatlands
• Peatland restoration in Scotland increases by 25% over last year
• Precious peatland saved from housing development threat
• Thousands of hectares of peatlands set to be restored to help tackle climate change
• A million-pound project to restore Dorset’s peatlands.
• National Park secures funding to re-wet and restore peat habitats
• White tailed eagles back in Caithness after almost 100-year absence
• Summit to sea nature restoration continues at Ben Wyvis
• Peatland owners offered funding to prepare for restoration
• Projects share £4m to help nature recover
• Peatland ACTION wins prestigious climate award
• Peatland ‘time capsule’ reveals prehistoric woodland habitat and insects which still exist today
• New works supercharge precious peatland on England’s first ‘Super’ National Nature Reserve
• Forest and peatland scheme sows seed for net zero
• First-ever flux tower on forested peat to measure landscape scale emissions
• Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill passed
• Reaction: Scottish Grouse Bill will damage the countryside, says BASC
• Cutting-edge technology will boost real-time monitoring of remote peatlands
• Drones could help cut cost of peatland restoration
• Scars on the landscape that can be seen from space
• Moss 'speed bumps' to prevent flooding in latest phase of Kinder Scout peatland restoration
• Photography study reveals nature recovery
• Public see Wales’ peatland restoration in action
• Record high peatland restoration
• Restoring eroded peatlands reduces flood risk for communities downstream
• Scotland’s Flow Country secures World Heritage status
• Mind bog-gling new study reveals Marsden Moor stores over a million tonnes of carbon
• Major work on Coast to Coast trail
• Butterfly Conservation, B&Q and Co-op sign letter urging Government to end peat sales
• New report celebrates UK peatland restoration – but climate and nature targets still at risk
• Peatland struggles to recover six years on from devastating wildfires
• Green light for grazing on Pembrokeshire’s important peatland sites
• Peatland restoration training upskills over 30 local contractors in Northern Ireland
• Butterfly Conservation awarded £250,000 to help beautiful bog butterfly in Wales
• Future of UK peatlands under threat due to climate change
• Seven decades for Scotland to reach 30% nature recovery target at current rates, new figures show
• Indicators that rewetted peatland stalled wildfire spread!
• Rare dragonfly introduced into a hidden corner of Cumbria
• Britain’s largest rewilding landscape launches as new charity
• England’s peatlands mapped for first time in major step towards their recovery
• Record levels of peatland restored
• Expansion of peatland restoration in west of Scotland part of record setting efforts
• Arctic peatlands expanding as climate warms
• Historic peatlands at the heart of the Industrial Revolution to become New National Nature Reserve
• Wales smashes peatland restoration target
• Report calls for bigger role for shooting in nature recovery
• Scotland’s peatlands to get £20m health boost
• Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago
• Radnorshire Wildlife Trust awarded NRW funding to restore peat
• Burning banned on England’s deep peat to protect wildlife
• Responses to the Defra burning ban from BASC & RSPB
• Minister Muir launches the Northern Ireland Peatland Strategy to 2040
• More please! For peatland restoration grant
• Natural England sets out new vision for nature and growth with corporate strategy
• High-er Five for peatland!
• Natural World Fund: restoring the UK’s wild places through habitat, science, and partnership
• Launching Moor Resilience 2030