Sphagnum austinii with green and red S. rubellum #moss #bryophyte
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Sphagnum austinii with green and red S. rubellum #moss #bryophyte
It’s #WorldWildlifeDay. Peatlands are home to unique and fascinating wildlife!
Thriving #wildlife habitats is one of the many benefits of moorland restoration. Learn more about moorland habitats on our website: www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/our-purpose/...
📷 Moors for the Future/Sam Willis
Some of the most biodiverse parts of the Vale of York heaths are where clay lies close to the surface, creating fen-like conditions. Before enclosure, these transitional habitats would have been much more extensive; they should not be regarded as peripheral to the ecology of heathland.
Really enjoyed discussing The Lawton Principles (more, bigger, better and more joined up) with the ever enthusiastic John Lawton. youtu.be/GMlzvNxM2N0?...
Have you read the paper you've linked to? It's a short methodology of how to burn. Could you let us all know how it 'confirms controlled burning is vital for heathland health'?
An argument has long been made that “forced” reductions in grazing by Natural England in the 2000s led to “undrgrazing” and the rise in dominance of Molinia on Dartmoor Commons.
Pic here from a report I’ve found from 1985 showing Molinia dominance around Tavy Head at the height of overstocking.
Sphagnum capillifolium #moss #bryophyte
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Today a chap from NFU spouted guff on R4 about complex rivers being dire for wildlife.
Yet here a willow is creating a natural, oxygenated riffle.
1) Scouring rivers only benefits those who farm flood plains.
2) How do they think wildlife coped before we dredged rivers?
Answer: marvellously.
Why winter sheep grazing on Dartmoor’s commons must end.
Bold decisions are needed to ensure new Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier and Landscape Recovery Schemes deliver for nature and protected sites on Dartmoor's precious commons.
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/why-win...
Today is the 23rd birthday of Moors for the Future Partnership. The Partnership started as a single project in 2003, restoring the area around Black Hill in the South Pennines, and has since worked on over 250 sq km of blanket bog, bringing life back to this degraded but precious landscape.
The sphagnum mosses are loving all of this rain 💕 otherworldly treasures within the bog pools @sphagnums.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Pool of standing water on North Pennines peatland with patches of green sphagnum
North Pennines peatland with large pool of water and peat bunds in gully. Bright blue sky with minimal cloud.
North Pennines peatland with large pools of standing water. Fells in the background. Cloudy sky.
🔵Today is #WorldWetlandsDay
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems and we have them across the uplands of the North Pennines National Landscape. #northpenninespeatlands #celebratingwetlands #peatlands #wetlands #peatlandsmatter
The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
Good news!
High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/28/h...
A lot of what is said about Nature holding up development is simply not true. It’s wrong. False. At best misleading. If you’ve heard that newts are a cause of our national housing shortage, read this from @naturalengland.bsky.social
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/b...
We're delighted to share some big news!
Introducing our most ambitious peatland conservation programme to date, Moor Resilience 2030: www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/the-latest
#PeakDistrict #SouthPennines #Peatlands #Moorlands #BlanketBog #Biodiversity #Carbon #Water #Climate
A vibrant display of the Northern Lights in the night sky, featuring shades of green and red, with silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
Our Dark Skies Festival with the @yorkshiredales.org.uk is just one month away and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable celebration of the night sky 🌌
Take a look at the full programme: https://www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk/
📸 Chris Whiles
#DarkSkiesFestival2026
Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...
farmers / land managers - reclaim your ponds as places of water within the landscape
#land #conservation #management
Snow covered black spruce trees in a boggy area of interior Alaska.
Happy new year from the bogland gnomes who hope you achieve your goals this year. May that include wetland protection and conservation around the world. If you care about stable food, clean water, your climate, or beautiful inspiring places, then you care about wetlands.
Butterwort and sundews
A close up photo of a sundew leaf with a small insect trapped on it
A green sundew growing among red sphagnum moss
A sundew growing from a pool of water
Love bogs! (More often called muskegs here in SE Alaska) Sphagnum moss and carnivorous plants are some of my favorite things
You're right, they do also state that. I was interested in their opening statement though "no grounds for the claim that controlled burning 'causes biodiversity loss.'" - it's often the opening statement that people read as the take-away message. And that's a message I didn't see evidenced
Hi @andreasheinem.bsky.social, the @moorlandassoc.bsky.social state about your recent paper "An extensive review finds no grounds for the claim that controlled burning 'causes biodiversity loss.'"
My reading of point 10 in your review is that the evidence is mixed. Would you care to comment?
Your blog still repeatedly calls it a major scientific review despite the author Dr Heinemeyer saying that "It certainly is not a 'major review'..." I guess at some point you'll amend this?
Restoring Yorkshire’s peatlands! 🌱
Over 800ha of bog at #HumberheadLevels is being revived to lock carbon, boost biodiversity & reduce floods.
Learn more 👉 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/bringing-back-bog-peatland-restoration-humberhead-levels
#PeatlandRestoration
The #YorkshireDales National Park really is limestone country ❄️
Limestone is a hard sedimentary rock formed when remains of sea creatures dropped onto the sea floor. It contains fossils like corals and shells.
📌 Ribblehead
📸 Kev Lockwood Photography
#ChristmasCalendar
ICYMI, we still don't have legislation to ban the use of peat in bagged compost (or horticulture more widely) in the UK. Please sign the petition and let's keep peat in the bog and not a bag: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
Concentric ring patterns formed (we think) by a lichen, at Shining Cliff Wood, Alderwasley, Derbyshire, image Derbyshire HER
Concentric ring patterns formed (we think) by a lichen, at Shining Cliff Wood, Alderwasley, Derbyshire, image Derbyshire HER
Concentric ring patterns formed (we think) by a lichen, at Shining Cliff Wood, Alderwasley, Derbyshire, image Derbyshire HER
I'm lichen it ...
I'm lichen it a lot!
These petroglyphs from Shining Cliff Woods are rather beautiful but sadly we don't think they're archaeology
'Concentric boulder lichen' (porpidia/actomelia) might be the answer, but none of the online pix are this spectacular - any lichenologists out there?
Fantastic job: Specialist Advisor in Peatland Habitat Monitoring.
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales
