15 Years of Yorkshire Peat Partnership
Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) celebrated its 15th anniversary in Ilkley on Friday, 18 October
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Cross leaved heath and sphagnum © Beth Thomas
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Celebrities back last chance for UK Government to fulfil promise to ban sale of peat
• Today’s bill is UK Government’s last chance to ban sale of peat before election as promised
• Alison Steadman, Iolo Williams & Cel Spellman join The Wildlife Trusts in urging MPs to…
Great North Bog gets great boost in funding to keep carbon locked up
£2.9 million in grants awarded for peatland restoration across Northern England as uplands rise to the meet the challenge of climate change.
UK Government confirms ban on all peat-based gardening products will not be implemented until 2030
Today, Defra (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) has confirmed that while some peat-containing products will be banned from shelves in 2027, others will be exempt from a ban until…
Funding success for the Great North Bog
£6.9 million in grants awarded for peatland restoration across Northern England
Yorkshire Peat Partnership brings peat to life
New exhibition in Dales Countryside Museum - Give Peat a Chance - will allow everyone to experience Yorkshire’s magnificent peatlands
Bringing peatlands to life
Yorkshire Peat Partnership celebrates another successful year
Great North Bog rises to the climate challenge
The Wildlife Trusts unveil 12 new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Among them is Yorkshire Wildlife…
Giving peat a(nother) chance
Garfield Weston Foundation boosts restoration on Yorkshire Dales peatland
Keeping the peat on the peatlands
Skipton and Ripon MP, the Rt Hon Julian Smith, visited peatland restoration work in the Yorkshire Dales to see how protecting our peatlands can help people and wildlife.