We (Emma, Gautier and I) are on some peatland in a side dale off Wensleydale to set up five monitoring plots as part of the Ure Dales project (more on why this is important later) funded by Defra…

The language we use to discuss peatlands undermines and maligns them; they absolutely deserve more from us...

On 12th April, we will be opening a really special exhibition in Ilkley. It’s the culmination of a 2-year project to help people in the surrounding areas get closer to the peatlands – closer in…

Over recent years, we have seen increasing awareness about the use of peat in compost we buy...

As autumn trudges in, we trudge out onto the moors to start the restoration season, swaddled in layers, heads bowed in obeisance to the weather.

A spring transect across one of our restoration sites.

The Government’s Nature for Climate (NfC) funding scheme is drawing to a close in March 2025 (as far as we know) and we at Yorkshire Peat Partnership wanted to take a little time to celebrate what…

Finding your own voice in nature poetry

We're curating an exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, look at thousands of years of peatland history in the Yorkshire Dales.

You may have heard about the Great North Bog over the past few months and wanted to find out more. The formal launch will take place in spring 2022, but the Peatland Pavilion at COP26 will be…