Our services

YPP staff surveying peatlands, Ingleborough in the background beneath a glowering sky

Surveying for Wild Ingleborough © YPP

We offer a range of services to meet your peatland needs

Surveying a hagged gully © Dom Hinchley

On the ground

Peatland surveying

Yorkshire Peat Partnership has already walked thousands of kilometres collecting data for our own restoration planning. From pre-survey desk based mapping through to ground-truthing, we have the skills and equipment to map out your site efficiently.

Quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle surveying bare peat

Quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle © Dave Higgins

From the air

Remote sensing

Our pilots are Civil Aviation Authority certified and have surveyed over 11,500 hectares of peatland using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - as far as we know this is the largest dataset of its kind in the UK. We can provide UAV surveys of peatlands for restoration as well as monitoring needs, providing planning, on site surveying, analysis and reporting.

A series of timber dams blocking a gully on blanket bog; the summit of Buckden Pike is in the distance

Timber dams on Cray Moss, Buckden Pike in the distance © Lyndon Marquis

Planning your work

Restoration planning

We can provide support throughout the restoration process:

assessing your peatland restoration needs
writing restoration plans
beginning to end project support with the consents process
consulting stakeholders
supporting with attracting funding
getting your project ready for the ground works and managing works and reporting.

A helicopter with a long cable trailing below it, coming into a high valley to pick up more cargo

Helicopter coming into reload © Sam Halliday

Overseeing your work

Clerk of works

Our team has the knowledge and experience to oversee peatland restoration projects to ensure they comply with environmental legislation, planning conditions, and agreed-upon quality standards. On-site supervision, compliance monitoring, protected species management, contractor/stakeholder liaison, and support with reporting.

Setting out a plot to conduct greenhouse has monitoring

Greenhouse gas monitoring plot above Bishopdale © Dom Hinchley

Monitoring your work

Monitoring and evaluation plans

YPP has a large and efficient monitoring and research programme with extensive in-house experience in many different methods as well as a breadth of knowledge about what monitoring is suitable for a peatland and how to analyse and understand data. We can provide support for single site monitoring or developing a programme, helping to provide data on what you want to know and supporting your monitoring to fit in with national standards.

The network of cell bunding successfully holding water on site

Swarth Moor cell bunding © Jack Taylor, Bowland Ecology

Certification

Peatland Code project development

YPP can act as Project Developer for peatland code projects. From initial scoping and assessment to see if it is a route you would like to pursue to full project development, we have the skills to support your needs.

A group people sitting on a peatland, sketching the landscape around them

bringing people with you

Community engagement

We can support with community engagement programmes. YPP has developed and delivered extensive community engagement programmes, focusing on disadvantaged communities of all ages and locations, building connections and relationships between people and places whilst exploring peatland through the arts, monitoring, species reintroduction and restoration practices. We can provide bespoke sessions or programmes delivered in a location and timeframe to suit you.