A year in peat...
Our Communications Officer considers what he's learned about peat since he started.
Our Communications Officer considers what he's learned about peat since he started.
New exhibition in Dales Countryside Museum - Give Peat a Chance - will allow everyone to experience Yorkshire’s magnificent peatlands
Our homes and gardens have an important role in the fight against climate change. Help preserve vital peatland by going peat free.
We're curating an exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, look at thousands of years of peatland history in the Yorkshire Dales.
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.
Garfield Weston Foundation boosts restoration on Yorkshire Dales peatland
“A bog?”
Yes, a peat bog.
“What’s a peat bog?”
• Today’s bill is UK Government’s last chance to ban sale of peat before election as promised
• Alison Steadman, Iolo Williams & Cel Spellman join The Wildlife Trusts in urging MPs to…
Yorkshire Peat Partnership will be heading to Buckden on Sunday 28th July to celebrate their 10th birthday with a selection of fun activities with partners the National Trust and Yorkshire Dales…
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…
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 yellow, star-like flowers of bog asphodel brighten up our peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer, attracting a range of pollinating insects.