Peat Programme Manager News Today

AN independent law firm has invested £50,000 to help kickstart a new project to restore more than 400 hectares of internationally important…

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s restoration work on the most eroded area of blanket bog in Yorkshire is receiving a boost with a whopping £312,000 from the grant-giving charity the Garfield Weston Foundation. Fleet Moss is one of the most degraded upland peatlands in Yorkshire. The bog is criss-crossed with drainage ditches (grips) and erosion channels (gullies) that flush water and sediment into the Wharfe and Ure river catchments. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has already installed hundreds of d...