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How to measure biodiversity gain on Combs Moss moor – 500 metres above sea level

Thu 24 Apr 2025

Moors for the Future Partnership in collaboration with University of Derby students has launched an important science and data site at Combs Moss above the Peak District town of Buxton, integrating various research techniques for the first time. Monitoring high-altitude, exposed sites can be challenging; so the team are trialling

Volunteers Help to Heal Moorland Scarred by Wildfire with Innovative Planting

Thu 24 Apr 2025

Spring signals the end of peatland restoration season across the Peak District and South Pennines. This year walkers venturing out onto the hugely popular pathways of The Roaches in Staffordshire will be able to see evidence of the restoration works carried out there over Winter, in order to heal this

Bog Standard Autumn 2024

Mon 11 Nov 2024

Welcome to the Autumn 2024 edition of our quarterly newsletter, The BOG Standard, bringing you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.To have the BOG Standard delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter.In the latest edition you can read about:Our Wild Spaces short film

Monitoring the buzz of bats on the iconic Kinder Scout plateau

Thu 24 Oct 2024

A new scientific study has been undertaken by Moors for the Future Partnership and Derbyshire Bat Group to search for evidence of bats foraging on Kinder Scout, the National Nature Reserve cared for by the National Trust in the Peak District. Audio recording equipment was placed on the mountain plateau

Wild Spaces in cinemas now

Thu 24 Oct 2024

Working in partnership is essential to the work we do. This Summer we collaborated with National Trust, National Parks Partnerships,Peak District National Park, Peak District National Park Foundation, Pearl & Dean, Dive and Plastic Pictures to bring the decades long restoration story of Kinder Scout to the cinema through the

What Green Financing for the Uplands can do for Business

Tue 22 Oct 2024

Conference 2024 Two day conference in the Peak District Town of Buxton Partners from around the UK including Defra, Natural England and the Environment Agency Important discussions on how to fund nature restoration into the future Moors for the Future Partnership alongside partner Severn Trent gathered together key stakeholders to

The BOG Standard - Summer 2024 edition

Fri 14 Jun 2024

Welcome to the Summer 2024 edition of our quarterly newsletter, The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership. To have the BOG Standard delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter.In the latest edition you can read about:Our 2023-24

Volunteers providing hands-on help to restore the moors

Wed 05 Jun 2024

Over the last year, volunteers have braved the elements to put in record amounts of time to help restore the moorlands of the Peak District and South Pennines.For 21 years, Moors for the Future Partnership have been working to restore these once damaged landscapes, bringing them back from a state

Works underway to restore wildfire scarred landscape

Wed 27 Mar 2024

When a campfire in 2018 started a wildfire that raged across 61 hectares of moorland near the Staffordshire town of Leek, 20% of the precious peatland landscape of the Roaches was devastated. The equivalent of over 85 football pitches of ground was left lifeless and blackened. Moors for the Future

Moors for the Future Partnership to host book launch for Edale author

Thu 21 Mar 2024

On Thursday 11 April at Edale Village Hall Moors for the Future Partnership will be holding an event to celebrate the launch of Sarah Lister’s book Mountain Walks Kinder Scout, a guide to walking routes up and around Kinder Scout in the Peak District.The event will also celebrate the changes

At 21 years, the key to the health of our moors is in the science

Thu 15 Feb 2024

This February, Moors for the Future Partnership is celebrating 21 years of restoring the moors of the Peak District and South Pennines.When the Partnership was formed in 2003, the moorlands of the Peak District were facing environmental catastrophe, with vast stretches of peatlands damaged by a legacy of industrial pollution.

Innovative project to help protect historic Peak District spa town

Thu 07 Dec 2023

Nestlé Waters UK, the Environment Agency, Severn Trent and the Harris & Sheldon Group have joined forces with Moors for the Future Partnership in a natural capital financing initiative to fund critical upland restoration work in the Peak District. It now means 80% of the project funding has been provided

The BOG Standard Autumn 2023 edition

Wed 06 Dec 2023

Welcome to the Autumn 2023 edition of our quarterly newsletter, The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership. To have the BOG Standard delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter. In the latest edition you can read about:

Funding boost helps Peak District peatland restoration partners rise to the challenge of tackling climate change

Thu 07 Sep 2023

Millions of pounds in Government funding have been awarded for peatland restoration across the Peak District National Park, to be carried out by Moors for the Future Partnership, and on land cared for by the National Trust in the Peak District. This is part of wider funding which recognises the

Volunteer applications open for the first time in 3 years

Fri 28 Jul 2023

Moors for the Future Partnership, based in Edale, are excited to announce that they are opening up applications for people to join their team of volunteers for the first time since the beginning of 2020. Volunteering offers a great way for local communities to get hands on to protect our

Moorland restoration partnership wins climate award

Mon 10 Jul 2023

A Peak District peatland conservation partnership has received a prestigious award for its moorland restoration, science and public engagement work.Severn Trent and Moors for the Future Partnership were named winners of the Climate and Nature Action 2030 Award at the CIEEM Awards 2023. The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental

The BOG Standard - Spring 2023 edition and February 2023 supplement

Fri 02 Jun 2023

Welcome to the Spring 2023 edition of our quarterly newsletter The BOG Standard, continuing to bring you the latest from the world of Moors for the Future Partnership.Read The BOG Standard - Spring 2023 onlineRead The BOG Standard - February 2023 supplement onlineSign up to The Bog Standard

Edale Station welcomes moorland plants on board

Tue 09 May 2023

Two large planters, situated at Edale Train Station along the Hope Valley line, have been re-planted by Edale Station Friends with wonderful blanket bog species. The plants have been funded by Severn Trent as part of the Moor Water project.Originally installed under the MoorLIFE 2020 project, the planters are joined

Another conservation works season completed marks two decades of restoration work

Mon 17 Apr 2023

In February this year, we celebrated 20 years of Moors for the Future Partnership. The Partnership started as a Heritage Lottery Funded project on 15 February 2003, from this first project it has grown into a programme using evidence-based conservation – alongside innovative science and public engagement – to restore

Is there life on moors? Looking out for signposts to new growth

Fri 24 Mar 2023

As part of its work to bring degraded peatland back to life, Moors for the Future Partnership will have completed £3.3 million worth of restoration work from August 2022 to March 2023, thanks to funding from Severn Trent, Yorkshire Water, DEFRA and Natural England.In the last six months the Partnership

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