Welcome to the Yorkshire Peat Partnership
Part of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Who are we?
The Yorkshire Peat Partnership, or YPP, is an umbrella organisation comprising the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Natural England, North York Moors National Park Authority, Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency. It also receives support from Nidderdale AONB, Pennine Prospects, Environment Agency, National Trust, Moorland Association, National Farmers Union and Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust. The aim of the partnership is to restore and conserve upland peat resources in order to ensure the long-term future these unique and valuable habitats
The potential project area is vast, encompassing the uplands of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Nidderdale AONB, North York Moors National Park and areas of the South Pennines, North of the river Calder. Within the Yorkshire region alone there is nearly 70,000 ha of upland peat soil, upon which a staggering 4,350,000 m of grips (drainage channels) have been incised! There is a real and pressing need to undertake restoration in the Yorkshire region in order to protect these precious carbon sinks.
What do we do?
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Latest News
Volunteers required
17/ 05/ 2012
It's survey and monitoring time again. Shortly YPP will be out monitoring vegetation in the Dales, Nidderdale, and the North York Moors in relation to restoration works. 
Research News
12/ 04/ 2012
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With help from YPP the University of York has begun installing equipment for a large-scale research programme. The research sites include sites in the Yorkshire Dales, Nidderdale and the Forest of Bowland.
Countryfile films YPP!
12/ 04/ 2012
A TV film crew have been out with presenter Tom Heap filming peatland restoration work for BBC Countryfile on a North York Moors restoration site on which the Yorkshire Peat Partnership are managing the restoration. We will let you know when it will be aired!
YPP on Facebook
02/ 02/ 2012
YPP now has a Facebook page! There will be regular updates, peat-related news and photographs from the project.
You can find us here: www.facebook.com/YorkshirePeatPartnership
Restoring the North York Moors Part 2!
31/ 01/ 2012
Gareth Jenkins from the Sustainable North York Moors blog has filmed our restoration officer Peter Christopherson for the second installment about the restoration work taking place in the region.
Restoration work underway
14/ 12/ 2011
Hibernation isn’t an option for YPP! Winter is our busiest season as this is the time of year when, as well as surveying, we appoint 
contractors to do the restoration work on sites where surveys have been completed and Restoration Plans have been agreed.
Despite the wind and snow, peatland restoration work has begun on 3 sites over the last few weeks with at least 3 more sites due to have work started on them very soon.
Conservationists call for urgent restoration of UK peatlands!
08/ 12/ 2011
A recent article published in the Guardian website discusses the new report published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The report warns that by losing just 5% of British peatlands would equal the UK's annual carbon emission and risk climate targets. Click here to read the report in full.
