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A year in peat...
Our Communications Officer considers what he's learned about peat since he started.
Yorkshire Peat Partnership brings peat to life
New exhibition in Dales Countryside Museum - Give Peat a Chance - will allow everyone to experience Yorkshire’s magnificent peatlands
How to go peat free at home
Our homes and gardens have an important role in the fight against climate change. Help preserve vital peatland by going peat free.
Give Peat a Chance
We're curating an exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, look at thousands of years of peatland history in the Yorkshire Dales.
Keeping the peat on the peatlands
Skipton and Ripon MP, the Rt Hon Julian Smith, visited peatland restoration work in the Yorkshire Dales to see how protecting our peatlands can help people and wildlife.
Giving peat a(nother) chance
Garfield Weston Foundation boosts restoration on Yorkshire Dales peatland
Peat Project Intern: New to the Bog Life.
“A bog?”
Yes, a peat bog.
“What’s a peat bog?”
Water rail
From grunts and groans, to 'purring' and 'piglet squealing', the water rail is more often heard than it is seen! This shy bird lives in reedbeds and wetlands, hiding among the…
My jump leads
Ann and her husband nurture and cultivate specialist sphagnum mosses and vascular plants like bog cranberry for a community area of the moss: they’re kickstarting the vegetation growth on Little…
From the uplands of Yorkshire to the lowest point in England: Yorkshire Peat Partnership flies the Great Fen
From Holme Fen, the lowest point in the country sitting at 2.75 metres below sea level, the distant drumming of woodpeckers can be heard echoing over the fields. The landscape is wide and flat and…
Field vole
With a population of 75 million, the field vole is one of the UK's most common mammals. Hidden among the vegetation of grassland, heathland and moorland, it is not as easily spotted as the…