Last week saw the exciting first harvest of bulrush heads for The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside’s wetter farming trial site on a farm on Chat Moss.

Lancashire Wildlife Trust has launched a new appeal to raise £20,000 to help save three extraordinary insects – and work towards restoring an entire ecosystem in the process.

It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.…

A pioneering project looking at ways that farmers can farm on waterlogged land while also protecting environmentally important peatlands and combatting climate change will continue with a year-…

Network of 11 nature abundant lowland peat sites in between Liverpool and Manchester became a King’s Series National Nature Reserve at the official launch on Monday 14th July.

Lancashire Wildlife Trust is excited to be part of a new project bringing together partners from the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands to help take wetter farming from theory to reality.

Darwen Tower, Winter Hill, Rivington Pike; these iconic landmarks provide the backdrop to so many of our everyday lives and activities. Now Lancashire Wildlife Trust along with United Utilities…

Our team has been braving the elements to plant sphagnum moss at our bulrush wetter farming trial in Lancashire. But why?

Our first wetter farming trial crop of bulrushes are growing well on a re-wetted peatland in Greater Manchester.

The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside has received a share of £3.5million from Co-op and their charity, the Co-op Foundation, to continue a pioneering wetter farming…