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The heritage of peatlands webinar
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Peatlands offer fascinating insights into how our ancestors lived and died. Moors for the Future Partnership, perhaps better known for its environmental conservation work to protect the peatlands of the Peak District and South Pennines, is hosting this webinar, in partnership with Europarc Atlantic Isles, to explore in more detail
The BOG Standard - the summer edition
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Welcome to the summer edition of our quarterly newsletter, The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.Read it online
Hitting the ground running for vegetation monitoring season with our volunteers back on the moors
Mon 27 Jul 2020
We are delighted to be welcoming back our volunteers as the vegetation monitoring season gets underway. Every year, we undertake vegetation surveys to monitor the effects of our restoration work, and in response to environmental change. This year marks the seventeenth consecutive year of monitoring, making it one of the
Sensational seasonal stats
Tue 14 Jul 2020
Over the 2019/2020 work season alone (which ended slightly earlier than usual this year due to lockdown), the Partnership revegetated over 27 hectares of bare peat by airlifting, and then spreading by hand, over 5,000 bags of cut heather brash and laying down over 13,000 square metres of geo-textile. Heather
Building links between public and private investment to help bring the green shoots of recovery to the moors
Fri 29 May 2020
Moors for the Future Partnership, who for the past 17 years has been working to restore the peatlands of the Peak District and South Pennine moors, has been selected to receive funding in a pilot scheme to encourage sustainable private sector investment in our natural environment.Defra, the Environment Agency (EA),
Webinar: Moors for the Future Partnership’s ground-breaking project Building Blocks- Next Steps in Gully Blocking
Tue 19 May 2020
Building Blocks Part 1 & 2 on Wednesday 10th June at 10.30 and Wednesday 17th June at 14.30Part 1Find out about Moors for the Future Partnership’s ground-breaking project Building Blocks- Next Steps in Gully Blocking. Building Blocks has enabled the Partnership to map the next 100,000 gully blocks across the
Testing a new technique to improve moorland habitat
Fri 01 May 2020
Moors for the Future Partnership is pioneering and testing a new technique to improve the condition of blanket bog habitat.The aim of the trial is to discover if constructing bunds can improve the health of blanket bogs, returning them to the healthiest condition a bog can be in (known as
Hydrological model builds the blueprint of moorland restoration for the next generation
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Building Blocks – next steps in gully blocking is a project part-funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development under the Natural England Water Environment Grant (WEG) scheme. Building Blocks aims to improve biodiversity in the South Pennine Moors Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by re-wetting blanket bog, with
The BOG Standard - the spring edition
Thu 09 Apr 2020
Welcome to the spring edition of our quarterly newsletter, The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.Read it online
New species of sphagnum discovered by Moors for the Future Partnership volunteer
Wed 01 Apr 2020
Read our April Fools Day prank:A new species of sphagnum has been identified by Moors for the Future Partnership. Nicknamed Futuristic Bog Moss, or Sphagnum futura, the plant is said to be the first true blue sphagnum species. The patch of startling violet sphagnum was discovered in August 2019 during
The results have been pooled for the ninth annual dipwell campaign
Wed 18 Mar 2020
A healthy blanket bog relies on a high water table for its unique and boggy conditions. Every year, volunteers measure the depth of the water table in hundreds of locations. This is known as Moors for the Future Partnership’s dipwell campaign.The data has been analysed by Partnership scientists, and interesting
Women in Science Day
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Tia Crouch, Senior Research & Monitoring Officer talks about her career in conservation science, and what first sparked her interest in the field of peat bogs! I’ve always had an interest in the environment and have fond memories of regular walks on Dartmoor and summer camping trips with my parents
Molinia management webinar
Tue 04 Feb 2020
Learn from researchers and practitioners who are at the forefront of Molinia managementAs part of our MoorLIFE2020 project, we ran a webinar alongside Europarc Atlantic Isles on the subject of Molinia management. Molinia caerulea, also called purple moor grass, covers large areas of deep peat. It can dominate other blanket
New Guiding Principles for the creation of clough woodland published
Thu 09 Jan 2020
Moors for the Future Partnership has published a set of guiding principles for the creation of clough woodlands in the Peak District and South Pennines.Creation of Clough Woodlands: Methodology and design principles covers information about how to create clough woodlands, project planning, choosing suitable land, acquiring consents from government bodies,
The Bog Standard - the winter edition
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Welcome to the winter edition of our recently relaunched quarterly newsletter, now entitled The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.Read it online
Measuring the moorland water table: 2019 Dipwell Campaign
Wed 20 Nov 2019
20 November 2019 The restoration work that Moors for the Future Partnership do is underpinned by research and monitoring carried out by a team of dedicated scientists and volunteers – often battling the elements to keep our datasets accurate, complete and up-to-date.A key event in the research and monitoring calendar
‘Moor’ results than ever for local youth climate action
Fri 25 Oct 2019
MICCI, the Moorland Indicators of Climate Change Initiative, is a UK-wide project giving secondary school students the opportunity to take part in real-world climate science. Students from schools in or close to UK National Parks – including here in the Peak District - visit moorland or other peatland areas to
New maps highlight the most up to date information about wildfire ignition
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Latest data brings risk maps up to date The maps take into account the latest data on wildfire ignition across the Peak District.Read the summary reportRead the full reportThe maps have been produced using data from Moors for the Future Partnership's newly updated wildfire database, which aims to collect comprehensive
Relaunched newsletter - The BOG Standard
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Welcome to the first edition of our relaunched quarterly newsletter, now entitled The BOG Standard, and continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.Read it online
Moors for the Future Partnership plays host to the Today programme
Mon 09 Sep 2019
As the sun rose over the Hope Valley, Kinder Scout made an impressive, and iconic, background as the history, heritage and future of the National Parks were in the spotlight on BBC Radio 4 recently. Moors for the Future Partnership played host to BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programme, Today,
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