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
New exhibition in Dales Countryside Museum - Give Peat a Chance - will allow everyone to experience Yorkshire’s magnificent peatlands
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…
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…
The soft, downy look of Yorkshire-fog makes it an attractive plant, even if it is considered a weed of cultivated land! It is also attractive to the caterpillars of the Small Skipper butterfly as…
“A bog?”
Yes, a peat bog.
“What’s a peat bog?”
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrated winning a prestigious prize on 21st June, as they took home the ‘Innovation Award’ from the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management Award…
Mary moved to Birmingham for her job and has found volunteering with The Wildlife Trust the perfect way to meet new people and put down roots in a new place.
Our Communications Officer considers what he's learned about peat since he started.
Attracting wildlife to your work will help improve their environment – and yours!
Working full time in a windowless room cut Sonja off from the natural world around her; but spending time in wild places has helped her to discover herself since a shock diagnosis two years ago.…
The Wildlife Trusts unveil 12 new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Among them is Yorkshire Wildlife…