Peatlands
Matthew Snelling, Peatland Restoration Officer for the Yorkshire Peat Partnership, introduces the wonderful world of peatlands, one of our most precious habitats.
Matthew Snelling, Peatland Restoration Officer for the Yorkshire Peat Partnership, introduces the wonderful world of peatlands, one of our most precious habitats.
Elegant, airy woodlands of silver-barked birches found across the northern uplands. Often transient in feel, with scattered trees growing over the heathy field layer of the surrounding moorland,…
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been awarded a £100,000 Discovery Grant by Natural England to identify the mechanisms needed to protect and restore the county’s peatlands and develop a Lowland…
These tiny habitats, the source of our streams and rivers, are fundamental to the well-being of whole water catchments.
Beautiful displays of flowers spread under the gentle shade of unfurling ash leaves in spring, while in winter the abundant ferns and mosses mean these small, rocky woods retain a watery greenness…
Two-year delay to England peat strategy as damage continues to vital carbon stores.
Tim Birch takes a look at Derbyshire's uplands, the National Trust's recent tenancy agreement and what our vision is for Derbyshire's precious moorlands.