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Moors for the Future advise on winning project in Northern Ireland

Tue 16 Jun 2015

A bog restoration project in the Garron Plateau, Co. Antrim - the first of its kind in Northern Ireland - has won an award for “Business and Biodiversity” at the Business in the Community Awards 2014.Steve Maynard, Conservation Works Officer, one of the team from Moors for the Future Partnership

Saving our peat bogs with slime, beads, hummocks and plug-plants

Fri 27 Mar 2015

Walkers on Kinder Scout should not be alarmed to see spaceman-like figures spraying green slime all over areas of Peak District moor.They are part of a team of conservationists conducting scientific trials on the best way to re-introduce sphagnum moss onto peat moors devastated by environmental changes over the past

Ancient peatlands to grow again

Tue 17 Mar 2015

Farmers and grouse moor owners are teaming up with conservationists to restore vast expanses of Peak District and South Pennines peatlands, home to extensive tracts of semi-natural moorland with upland heath and peat bog, birds of prey and wading birds.The peat bogs have been in decline since the industrial revolution,

A volunteer's view

Mon 08 Dec 2014

“It's brilliant to be part of something so important”Jane Price - Community Science volunteer“I took early retirement from the NHS at the age of 50 because I wanted to work in conservation. Volunteering is a brilliant way to get experience and to find out if conservation is for you. I've

MoorCitizens wins Lottery funding to help combat climate change

Mon 24 Nov 2014

A new Community Science Project in the Peak District and South Pennines that will encourage local people and visitors to get involved in caring for their local moors has been awarded over £600k in funding.The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant has been given to the Moors for the Future Partnership

World Parks Congress

Thu 20 Nov 2014

This week Moors for the Future Partnership manager Christopher Dean gave a presentation at the 10th IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia.As part of the session – “Blue and green carbon: a new opportunity for protected areas?” in the climate change section of the conference - he talked about

Visitor Surveys - can you help?

Mon 17 Nov 2014

We are planning another round of Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys in December.The surveys will build on the data collected since 2012. Our questionnaire asks who is visiting our green spaces and why, what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think of the natural environment

Path restoration protects vital Moorlands

Fri 17 Oct 2014

Visitors to one of the Peak District’s most stunning upland viewpoints will be able to enjoy a newly-restored footpath by next Spring.The popular Whinston Lee Tor permissive path on Moscar Moor, which stretches along Derwent Edge overlooking Ladybower Reservoir, is to be resurfaced with a mixture of gritstone aggregate and

Science volunteer seminar

Thu 25 Sep 2014

Twenty people attended a seminar organised by the science team on 31st January 2014. Members of the science team gave presentations on different aspects of our work.Rachael Maskill started things off with a presentation about vegetation monitoring.Tia Crouch gave a presentation on water quality and showed a video of water

Dark Peak NIA visitor surveys reach over 1000 people

Mon 15 Sep 2014

The second round of 2014 Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys took place in early September.A dedicated team of volunteers continues working despite the conditions, which included clouds of midges, to carry out the surveys and bring the total number of completed questionnaires to over 1,100.These surveys build

Visitor Surveys - can you help?

Tue 12 Aug 2014

The second round of 2014 Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys will be taking place in early September.The surveys will build on the data collected in 2012/13. Our questionnaire asks who is visiting our green spaces and why, what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think

A scientific approach to the effect of upland restoration on flooding

Mon 02 Jun 2014

Three football-pitch sized plots high on the uplands of Kinder Scout could hold the key to reducing the kind of flooding that wreaked havoc in parts of England last winter.The areas are test-beds for a six-year, £1m Making Space for Water multi-objective demonstration project in the Peak District National Park

Bee part of a hive of activity on the moors

Thu 24 Apr 2014

Do you regularly visit and walk on the moors of the Peak District and South Pennines?Would you like to take part in an innovative project?If so why not become a MoorCitizen and get involved in the Community Science Project run by the Moors for the Future Partnership and funded by

Aerial application of lime, seed and fertiliser on Kinder Scout

Thu 17 Apr 2014

Work is planned to begin after the Easter weekend to apply lime, seed and fertiliser by helicopter over the much of the Kinder Scout Plateau. This is an essential part of the programme of conservation works, to ensure that grasses can grow and help stabilise the bare peat that occurs

Visitor Surveys - can you help?

Mon 07 Apr 2014

The first Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys of 2014 will be taking place in mid-May.The surveys will build on the data we collected in 2012/13 including who is visiting green spaces and why; what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think of the natural environment

Kicking off 2014 season of moorland restoration

Thu 06 Mar 2014

We have made the most of this year's first real window in the weather over the past fortnight to fly over 5,600 bags of heather brash - for use in moorland restoration work – onto sites across the Peak District National Park and the South Pennines.The heather brash is spread

Moors for the Future set sights on 2020 vision

Mon 17 Feb 2014

Moors for the Future Partnership has set out ambitious plans for development up to 2020 in a new Business Plan which will offer services to a wider market in 2015-2020.A not-for-profit partnership and a global leader in large-scale moorland restoration, our current members include the Peak District National Park Authority,

Yorkshire Water leads major improvement for Pennine moorland

Mon 03 Feb 2014

A significant project to conserve wildlife, improve drinking water and reduce flooding downstream is being carried out by Yorkshire Water on nationally important moorland overlooking Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.Yorkshire Water has commissioned more than five kilometres of fencing and dry stone walling for its Heptonstall and Widdop moors to help

Celebrating success on Wessenden Moor

Mon 20 Jan 2014

The team kick-started a new working year with a site visit to celebrate the success of gully blocking works at Wessenden Moor. The work is being undertaken for Yorkshire Water, on National Trust owned Marsden Moor Estate, and the effect is already visible. Joining the team of Moors for the

New sphagnum project

Mon 20 Jan 2014

A new project funded by Natural England and Yorkshire Water is investigating new ways of diversifying Molinia-dominated blanket bogs by using a simple treatment such as flailing followed by the application of sphagnum beads directly onto the Molinia.This invasive plant is traditionally dealt with by a combination of burning, poisoning,