The last Sunday of July means that International Bog Day is upon us here in Yorkshire and, of course, around the globe. It’s a day when we celebrate bogs, fens, swamps, mires, muskegs and marshes…

I’ll get straight to it – I think bugs are the underdogs of peatlands, and that’s what this blog post is all about – changing perceptions of bugs on bogs and championing their ecological…

From bog pools to carbon cool: peatlands in the hot seat

Swarth Moor is a pocket of unique and wonderful habitat within the Yorkshire Dales...

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…

There is more than meets the eye when gazing upon a blanket bog (upland peat bog) carpeted in sphagnum moss, shrubs and sedges.

The 2021/22 report from Yorkshire Peat Partnership identified that in total approximately 6,500 ha of foot surveys have been completed by the team since 2009.

“A bog?”
Yes, a peat bog.
“What’s a peat bog?”

Peat cores evidence thousands of years of climate and environmental change. So, what are our cores telling us about Yorkshire’s landscape?