
Investigating peatland invertebrates
Invertebrates are super sensitive to environmental changes, responding quickly to temperature, air quality, soil health and water quality. Dom Hartley from Lancashire Peat Partnership looks at how…
Invertebrates are super sensitive to environmental changes, responding quickly to temperature, air quality, soil health and water quality. Dom Hartley from Lancashire Peat Partnership looks at how…
As part of our exciting wetter farming trials, we are growing a commercial crop of bulrushes on purposefully re-wetted agricultural peat fields. But one question we get asked again and again is…
We have been restoring bog and fen habitat across Greater Manchester as part of the Network for Nature project. With the projects coming to an end, we'd like to celebrate the project by…
The rolling hills of the West Pennine Moors hold a special place in the hearts of many Lancastrians, but how much do you know about this special landscape?
Wetter farming, also known as paludiculture, is the practice of farming land that had previously been drained but now has a restored naturally higher water table. But what do farmers think about…
Come one, come all, step right up if you think you have what it takes to help the Lancashire Wildlife Trust restore a lowland raised peat bog in Greater Manchester.
Spend a day with Dom, the Forest of Bowland Peatland Officer. The Lancashire County Council are part of the Lancashire Peat Partnership and are working to restore upland blanket bog in the region…
Alex Hubberstey from the Lancashire Peat Partnership gives us a round up of the exciting work that’s been going on to restore one of our most iconic upland peatlands; Darwen Moor.
We are growing bulrushes on areas of re-wetted lowland agricultural peat, to investigate how we can reduce harmful carbon emissions from drained peatlands, whilst also keeping the land financially…