South West Peatland Partnership

More water, staying around for longer. That's what peatland restoration is all about here in the South West, and it's working 🌧 📸Jakob Pegler at Tavy Head SWPP is funded by @NaturalEngland @SouthWestWater #DuchyOfCornwall @DartmoorNT @CornwallCouncil @EnvAgencySW

ICYMI, catch up on the amazing #PeatlandRestoration work by the South West Peatland Partnership which featured on #Countryfile over the weekend. 👉 Countryfile - Dartmoor - BBC iPlayer

Tune in to BBC Countryfile on Sun 19 Jan at 6pm to see the vital peat restoration work happening on Dartmoor📺

A big thank you to our funders @NE_DCIoS @SouthWestWater #DuchyOfCornwall @EnvAgencySW @DartmoorNT @CornwallCouncil and to all the partner organisations, landowners, volunteers, contractors, farmers, interest groups, commoners and researchers who enable our work to happen.

Tune in to see vital restoration in action, with the team constructing one of a series of wooden blocks in an eroding channel, helping to slow the flow of water and restore our dried and degrading peat bogs. southwestpeatlandpartnership.co.uk/countryfile

We're so pleased that South West Peatland Partnership’s award-winning restoration work is to be featured on BBC Countryfile, this Sunday 19 January at 6pm 📷In this upcoming Dartmoor episode, Joe Crowley visits @WoodlandTrust Fingle Woods and @SWPeatland restoration projects.

What better way to celebrate #WorldSoilDay than bouncing across a soggy bog with #peat beneath your feet? Thanks to @SWPeatland for the tour of Crowdy Marsh restoration site and damp mince pies.

'Soaked in myth...rich archives of our cultural and environmental past... the canary in the coal mine for our current state of nature.' Join an evening of online poetry inspired by peatlands this Saturday >> ticketsource.co.uk/literature-wor…

The UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with on average about half its biodiversity left. We're taking ambitous & science-backed steps to diversify birdlife habitat on Dartmoor, increase bog-plant variety in Cornwall and create space for insects on Exmoor.

Halloween PSA - there are some actual bloodsuckers out there. Found a tick crawling on my hand today after a walk. If you’re out in the #GreatNorthBog or even just a local meadow, check yourself over when you get in - Lyme disease is much scarier than vampires…

@Naomioutdoors @NE_DCIoS Thank you Naomi :)

@NE_DCIoS @SWPeatland Fantastic work @SWPeatland !!

Congrats to @SWPeatland on winning gold at the Global Good Awards! We're proud funders of this innovative project which restores and protects vital peatlands. The judges praised the collaborative approach, which brings environmental, historic, social and economic benefits 🎉

Before➡️During➡️After. Fixed Point Photography is one of the ways our monitoring team track changes & our impact, like these from earlier this year down in W. Penwith, Cornwall. Holding back water, slowing the flow, raising water table, catching sediment & diversifying habitat.

A beautiful sunny Friday, out on remote Dartmoor. 7 diggers busy creating peat bunds to slow down the flow of water, raise and (crucially) stabilise the water table in the #peat, and helping to create the conditions needed for peat-forming sphagnum mosses to colonise and thrive.

Its definitely restoration season in the #GreatNorthBog. Seriously, if you applied for the 2 assistant posts earlier today, this is 80% of your working life. We look forward to meeting you...

Huge thanks to @OurArtAndEnergy for joining us out on Dartmoor to chat all things carbon, cists and collective action. Take a look at their epic artwork #mossycarpet #howtoburythegiant

To west Cornwall & Penwith Moors SSSI. Stunning landscape, unique wildlife, carbon, history, farming & culture. Out with @NaturalEngland colleagues to hear from farmers & other partners about the challenges at hand in sustaining Nature while also sustaining local farm businesses.

Huge thanks to @SWPeatland for a fascinating, informative & fun day out to visit Hangingstone Hill #Dartmoor to see their peatland restoration work in action Read more: artandenergy.org/news/hangingst… #artandenergy #peatlands #peatlandsmatter #howtoburythegiant

It's fantastic to see the shallow pools of water, created by #peatlandrestoration works on Exmoor, filling up with incredible peat-forming sphagnum mosses only 6 months on from when they were created.

SWPP is a proud collective of 20+ organisations working with landowners, commoners, farmers, charities, volunteers & local interest groups to make a positive difference to the future of our region's peatlands. Our funders are tagged on this pic of lovely cotton grasses on Exmoor.

Come and say hi to the SWPP team this August. We'll be at #ChagfordShow Thursday 15th and @dartmoornpa #MeldonWildlifeFestival Tuesday 20th with our bog in the box, interactive activities, and our team happy to chat about our work. chagfordshow.co.uk dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmoor…