Sphagnum capillifolium © Gordon Haycock of Haycock and Jay Associates Ltd
Our resources
Reports, guides and technical specifications
We have brought 42,800 ha of blanket bog (45% of the estimated total for our operational area) into restoration management*.
#yorkshire-peat-partnership-progress-reports
Bilberry © Tessa Levens
Yorkshire Peat Partnership progress reports
Reporting on our progress since 2009
Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual reports
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2024-2025 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-02/260107%20YPP%20Report_2025%20JL_V3.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2023-2024 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-10/241016%20YPP%20Report_2024.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2022-2023 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-11/2307185%20YPP%20Report_2023.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2021-2022 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-03/230105%20YPP%20Report_2022_FINAL_pages.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2020-2021 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-12/211109%20YPP%20Report_Dec%2021_singles_1.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership annual report 2019-2020 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-02/210202%20YPP%20Report_21_FINAL%20singles.pdf)
Yorkshire Peat Partnership milestone reports
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership 15 year report (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-10/241016%20%20YPP%20Report_15%20years.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership 10 year report (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/191121%202009_2019%20full%20report%20TT_0.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership 10 year summary (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/191121%202009_2019%20%20final%20report%20%20summary%20TT_1.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership 2009-2017 (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-10/Yorkshire%20Peat%20Partnership%202009%20to%202017%20Summary%20Report.pdf)
- Works monitoring on 20 sites over 6 years (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-10/Yorkshire%20Peat%20Partnership%20Works%20Monitoring%20Report%202017.pdf)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership 5 year report (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-12/141006%20YPP%205%20year%20report%20TT.pdf)
We have blocked 2,632 km of eroding grips and gullies and reprofiled 3,915 km of hags*.
#public-resources-and-guides
Public resources and guides
Information about peat across Yorkshire
#yorkshire-peat-partnership-project-reports
Black darter (Sympetrum danae) © Manon Pue
Yorkshire Peat Partnership project reports
Reports from our projects across northern Yorkshire's peatlands
Dragons in the Dales
- Dragons in the Dales - summary report (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/Dragons%20in%20the%20Dales%20-%20summary%20report.pdf)
- Dragons in the Dales - full report (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/250417%20Final%20Research%20Report%20-%20Dragons%20in%20the%20Dales%20JM.pdf)
- Dragons in the Dales - report appendices (https://www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/Report%20appendices%20-%20Dragons%20in%20the%20Dales.zip)
Sphagnum monitoring
#restoration-resources
Digger above Nidderdale © Jenny Sharman
Restoration resources
Technical specifications for our restoration works
Yorkshire Peat Partnership survey specification
Yorkshire Peat Partnership works monitoring protocol
In our 2022/23 survey season, we completed over 1,710 ha of aerial surveys.
Find out more about blanket bog, sphagnum and our work through blog posts from our colleagues and partners...
*as at March 2023