One of the largest costs to upland peatland restoration is the purchase of plug plants, most often sphagnum mosses due to the number needed to restore habitats. Back in 2024 Lancashire Wildlife…

Dr. Suma Mani from Manchester Metropolitan University talks about how the water table is key in both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and growing food on our wetter farming trial site.

Out team have been working hard at Little Woolden Moss, improving the condition of vital wet woodland habitat that surrounds the peat, improving the site for willow tits, one of Britain's…

Monday 2 February is World Wetlands Day, and this year is all about celebrating the cultural heritage of our wetlands.

Our peatlands communications officer, Kirsty Tyler, takes a look at…

Lois Clark, engagement officer for Lancashire Peat Partnership shares what her first six months have been like, and what's next for spreading the word about peat?

In 2025, the Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve was declared as part of the King’s Series. Find out how community members helped to make this happen.

Liv Symes from materials science company Ponda® talks about the devastating impact that fast fashion is having on the planet, and how their innovative Biopuff® material is helping Lancashire…

Peatlands Project Manager, Helen Earnshaw, takes us through a day surveying for the rare large heath butterfly on Winmarleigh Moss earlier this year.

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…