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Defra’s 25 year Environment Plan is good news for peatlands
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Moors for the Future Partnership welcomes the inclusion of peatlands in Defra’s 25 Year Environment Plan which was released today. The proposal announces the intention to deliver a new ambitious framework for peat restoration in England. The Partnership has been working since 2003 to protect the most degraded peatland landscape
Student project aims to discover how conservation work affects release of greenhouse gases
Wed 10 Jan 2018
A university research project aims to discover how the restoration of moorland affects the release of harmful greenhouse gases. Bangor University student, Bethany Howes, is working with Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) to see if different types of land management can alter how much carbon is stored by moorland
Moors for the Future Partnership science team is soarin’ with innovative unmanned aerial vehicle
Mon 18 Dec 2017
A state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is set to help the Moors for the Future Partnership monitor and analyse the impact of conservation works across vast, open moorlands.Members of the science team had their first official flight with the UAV at the end of last month. The specialist equipment is
Photo competition puts adventures in the uplands in focus
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Amateur photographers are being encouraged to enter a national photography competition celebrating British mountains, moorlands and bogs by entering images of their ‘adventures in the uplands’.The competition is organised by the Community Science team at the Moors for the Future Partnership in the Peak District National Park.Entries are invited in
Monitoring our own carbon footprint as we help to reduce flood risk and join the fight against climate change
Fri 17 Nov 2017
“Millions of people around the world have suffered – and continue to suffer – from extreme weather events… The message cannot get any clearer. We no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.”Speaking at the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference in Germany last week,
Vote now! Comms2Point0 UnAwards
Fri 10 Nov 2017
The Moors for the Future Partnership team that helped to organise BogFest earlier this year has been nominated for a prestigious national award.The communications team is up for Best Comms/ Digital Team in the Comms2Point0 UnAwards 2017.Voting by members of the public closes on Wednesday 22nd November. It takes just
Volunteers head out for seventh year to measure bogginess of Peak District moorland
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Volunteer scientists are heading out across the Peak District National Park in the run up to Christmas to monitor how wet the ground is on our local moors.The water level will be measured at 22 small ‘cluster’ areas across Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, as part of our annual dipwell project.Dipwells
Farm sandwiched between carriageways on one of Britain’s busiest motorways looks ‘Beyond Nature’
Mon 06 Nov 2017
The iconic Stott Hall Farm which sits in the middle of the M62 is joining forces with one of our partners, Yorkshire Water, for the ‘Beyond Nature’ campaign.The project is looking to transform how farms across the water company’s patch connect with the land, water and wildlife around them.Matt Buckler,
Involvement in new £1.2m research to help rural Peak District communities at risk from flooding
Fri 03 Nov 2017
A new £1.2m study is aiming to help protect 22 communities at risk from flooding in the Peak District National Park.We’ve joined forces with project lead, The University of Manchester, as well as University of Leeds, Durham University and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Environment Agency, to look into how
New monitoring of moorland plants and animals adds to decade of research into the state of Peak District and South Pennine uplands
Wed 01 Nov 2017
Moors for the Future Partnership’s annual vegetation monitoring has come to an end for the year. Volunteers have collected data from 12 sites across Kinder and Bleaklow by monitoring the vegetation in 156 areas, known as quadrats.The purpose of the vegetation monitoring, which starts in July after the bird breeding
Moors for the Future Partnership shortlisted in The Great Outdoors Awards 2017
Fri 27 Oct 2017
We are delighted to have been recognised for our commitment to and passion for conserving iconic moorland across the Peak District and South Pennines. We’ve been shortlisted in the Great Outdoors Awards ‘Extra Mile’ category - new for 2017 - for our work in “restoring the health and ecological diversity
Autumn MoorNEWS out now
Fri 27 Oct 2017
The autumn edition of our newsletter, MoorNEWS is available to read online now.You can find out more about our Community Science team's big win, our conservation works, and the introduction of the land manager guidance.Read it online.You can also sign up to receive future copies straight to your inbox.
Donation to Edale School raised by BogFest fell race
Thu 26 Oct 2017
More than £460 raised at the Moors for the Future Partnership’s fell race will help children at Edale CE Primary School learn about nature.In September, the Partnership held BogFest in the village, a conference and festival to celebrate all things boggy. It brought together professionals and the public to learn
Peak District bog scientists take home national award
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Volunteer scientists based in the Peak District and South Pennines have won the prestigious 2017 Campaign for National Parks ‘Park Protector’ award and collected a £2000 grant.Moors for the Future Partnership’s Community Science project which trains volunteers to monitor the health of the Dark Peak and South Pennine’s blanket bogs
New peatland restoration toolkit launched
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Story issued by the Moorland Association A new toolkit has been launched to enhance land managers’ understanding of the current condition of blanket bog and allow them to implement peatland restoration methods to make improvements.There is currently more carbon stored in the UK’s peatland than in the combined forests of
Cinderella will go to the ball, but she’ll be wearing hiking boots, not glass slippers!
Tue 03 Oct 2017
Fairy-tale in Edale as rare habitat is celebrated at festival-style conference in remote Peak District village. This September, nearly 300 international experts in peatlands came together to learn, share and celebrate the wonder of bogs at BogFest, a conference delivered with a festival atmosphere.Peatlands are exceptionally important for our wellbeing,
A year in the life of the Peak District and South Pennine Uplands
Wed 06 Sep 2017
Moors for the Future Partnership has published its first annual report.Illustrated with stunning photos of the Peak District and South Pennines, the partnership’s Year in Review is packed with stories that give a flavour of the work completed by the award-winning partnership in the last financial year. The look back
Networking with European colleagues
Sun 03 Sep 2017
Members of our team had the opportunity to see for themselves the raised bogs in Gauja National Park, Latvia, this month as part of the Conference on Conservation and Management of Wetland Habitats.Richard Guy, conservation works officer, said: “Fascinating place to visit for a conservationist, the biodiversity there is incredible.
Free public events in Edale to celebrate local moorland
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Guided walks, talks, a poetry evening and gardeners’ question time are some of the free, community-focused events that local people can look forward to as part of BogFest in Edale next month. BogFest – taking place Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd September at venues throughout the Hope Valley
Latest MoorNEWS now available
Thu 10 Aug 2017
The Summer edition of our newsletter, MoorNEWS is available to read online now.You can find out more about BogFest (21-23 September), and the latest update on our very exciting Bogtastic van!Read it online.You can also sign up to receive future copies straight to your inbox.
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