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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

Adventure Film Festival puts moorland restoration on the big screen

Fri 24 Feb 2023

On Saturday 4 March, Moors for the Future Partnership celebrates its 20th anniversary by showcasing its work at this year’s Sheffield Adventure Film Festival.At the centre of the event is a showing of the Partnership’s spectacular short film, “Working Together”, celebrating 20 years of partnership working across a vast area

A love of the Peaks inspires generous donation to moorland restoration

Mon 13 Feb 2023

A mother’s love of the moorlands of the Peak District has led to a generous legacy donation to help towards restoring this once damaged landscape. As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, Moors for the Future Partnership has received this donation to help with its ongoing work.Each winter, for the last

Funding success for the Great North Bog

Wed 30 Nov 2022

£6.9 million in grants awarded for peatland restoration across Northern EnglandPartners in the Great North Bog coalition are celebrating funding success of £6.9 million through the Nature for Climate fund, administered by Natural England. Combined with match-funding, the Great North Bog has attracted £9.3 million for restoration work through this

“Superhero’’ sphagnum moss reduces flood risk

Wed 28 Sep 2022

New research has shown how a tiny moorland plant, sphagnum or “bog moss” can dramatically reduce the likelihood and severity of flooding downstream for communities at risk.Six years ago, sphagnum moss was planted on Kinder Scout, the highest peak in the Peak District National Park, in an area which now

Monitoring complex vegetation communities from the air

Tue 27 Sep 2022

Is it possible to monitor changes to blanket bog vegetation using remote sensing imagery? This was the question posed in 2017 by Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) as part of MoorLIFE 2020, a project funded by EU LIFE, to restore huge swathes of degraded blanket bog moorland in the

New moorland app helps the adventurous to Explore Moor

Tue 20 Sep 2022

Moorlands are one of the most extensive upland habitats in the United Kingdom. The wide expanses of wild-seeming land impart a sense of space and adventure that is addictive for adventure-seekers and nature-lovers alike.Part of the charm is braving the elements in these exposed landscapes. For the adventurous, the harsh