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The green fingered scientists
Fri 04 May 2018
Moors for the Future Partnership scientists, Tom Spencer and Dave Chandler, have led a huge effort by volunteers and staff to plant 15,000 sphagnum plants on a monitoring site on Kinder during the harsh winter and spring of 2018. The site was a two hour hike from the roadside, with
Watch again: wildfire webinars
Fri 04 May 2018
Learn from industry experts about research into wildfires, and partnership work to help reduce them As part of our MoorLIFE 2020 project, we coordinated two webinars alongside Europarc Atlantic Isles on the subject of wildfires. Fires in the wild can have devastating effects on both people and animals.Uncontrolled fires on
British uplands photographic competition winners announced
Tue 01 May 2018
Family adventures and a 5000 foot selfie top the judge’s listMoors for the Future Partnership have announced the winners of their 2018 photo competition.The winning images showcase Britain’s upland landscapes – including mountains, moorlands and bogs – and feature people having some amazing adventures.Judges Kate MacRae and Jack Perks chose
460m of popular Peak District bridleway restored
Wed 25 Apr 2018
A badly degraded Peak District route popular with walkers, bikers and horse riders has enjoyed some TLC. The Cutthroat track, just off the A57 Snake Pass near the Ladybower dam, suffers from its popularity. Water running off the moors and lots of visitor traffic means that sections of the pathway
Survey of Peak District birds to take flight
Tue 20 Mar 2018
A head-count of birds that live on Peak District National Park moors will take place this summer, for the first time in 14 years. The vast landscape provides a vital home to special birds. These include golden plover, curlew, merlin, twite, dunlin, short-eared owl, red grouse, skylark, and meadow pipit.
Celebrating 15 years of mending moorland at the heart of the UK
Tue 20 Feb 2018
A team of organisations that helps beloved landscapes at the heart of the UK is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 15 unique events.The Moors for the Future Partnership commemorates its crystal anniversary this month but is extending celebrations throughout 2018.A special event took place in Edale on Friday 16th February
Blanket bog conservation work features in new Spanish research book
Mon 19 Feb 2018
A newly published book is sharing guidance and information about peatland conservation across the world.International experts share their insights into the identification, description, restoration and protection of peat bogs including in Canada, Spain and France. The book has been produced as part of Sustainable Ordunte, an EU LIFE+ funded project
February MoorNEWS out now
Tue 13 Feb 2018
The February edition of our newsletter, MoorNEWS is available to read online now.You can find out more about our conservation work, the UAV being used for landscape-scale research, and why we are monitoring our own carbon footprint.Read it online.You can also sign up to receive future copies straight to your
Fantastic figures for conservation
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Our conservation team is always busy and 2017 showed no signs of slowing down. Check out these figures from September- December 2017 to give you an idea of how much work takes place. (Science speak: a hectare is roughly the same size as a football field!) Bleaklow Land owned by
Work to repair a stretch of popular Peak District bridleway set to get underway
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Repair works to protect wildlife and moorland habitat are set to begin on the Cutthroat track bridleway.The Moors for the Future Partnership is delivering works for and on behalf of the owner of the popular route, on the Moscar Estate. The site sits near to Ladybower Reservoir, just off the
Defra’s 25 year Environment Plan is good news for peatlands
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Moors for the Future Partnership welcomes the inclusion of peatlands in Defra’s 25 Year Environment Plan which was released today. The proposal announces the intention to deliver a new ambitious framework for peat restoration in England. The Partnership has been working since 2003 to protect the most degraded peatland landscape
Student project aims to discover how conservation work affects release of greenhouse gases
Wed 10 Jan 2018
A university research project aims to discover how the restoration of moorland affects the release of harmful greenhouse gases. Bangor University student, Bethany Howes, is working with Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) to see if different types of land management can alter how much carbon is stored by moorland
Moors for the Future Partnership science team is soarin’ with innovative unmanned aerial vehicle
Mon 18 Dec 2017
A state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is set to help the Moors for the Future Partnership monitor and analyse the impact of conservation works across vast, open moorlands.Members of the science team had their first official flight with the UAV at the end of last month. The specialist equipment is
Photo competition puts adventures in the uplands in focus
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Amateur photographers are being encouraged to enter a national photography competition celebrating British mountains, moorlands and bogs by entering images of their ‘adventures in the uplands’.The competition is organised by the Community Science team at the Moors for the Future Partnership in the Peak District National Park.Entries are invited in
Monitoring our own carbon footprint as we help to reduce flood risk and join the fight against climate change
Fri 17 Nov 2017
“Millions of people around the world have suffered – and continue to suffer – from extreme weather events… The message cannot get any clearer. We no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.”Speaking at the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference in Germany last week,
Vote now! Comms2Point0 UnAwards
Fri 10 Nov 2017
The Moors for the Future Partnership team that helped to organise BogFest earlier this year has been nominated for a prestigious national award.The communications team is up for Best Comms/ Digital Team in the Comms2Point0 UnAwards 2017.Voting by members of the public closes on Wednesday 22nd November. It takes just
Volunteers head out for seventh year to measure bogginess of Peak District moorland
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Volunteer scientists are heading out across the Peak District National Park in the run up to Christmas to monitor how wet the ground is on our local moors.The water level will be measured at 22 small ‘cluster’ areas across Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, as part of our annual dipwell project.Dipwells
Farm sandwiched between carriageways on one of Britain’s busiest motorways looks ‘Beyond Nature’
Mon 06 Nov 2017
The iconic Stott Hall Farm which sits in the middle of the M62 is joining forces with one of our partners, Yorkshire Water, for the ‘Beyond Nature’ campaign.The project is looking to transform how farms across the water company’s patch connect with the land, water and wildlife around them.Matt Buckler,
Involvement in new £1.2m research to help rural Peak District communities at risk from flooding
Fri 03 Nov 2017
A new £1.2m study is aiming to help protect 22 communities at risk from flooding in the Peak District National Park.We’ve joined forces with project lead, The University of Manchester, as well as University of Leeds, Durham University and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Environment Agency, to look into how
New monitoring of moorland plants and animals adds to decade of research into the state of Peak District and South Pennine uplands
Wed 01 Nov 2017
Moors for the Future Partnership’s annual vegetation monitoring has come to an end for the year. Volunteers have collected data from 12 sites across Kinder and Bleaklow by monitoring the vegetation in 156 areas, known as quadrats.The purpose of the vegetation monitoring, which starts in July after the bird breeding
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