IUCN UK Peatland Programme

It's #InsectWeek, so let's hear it for all our bog-loving species. Peatlands support very specialised biodiversity, and restoring our peatlands helps provide a brighter future for species such as Large Heath butterflies bit.ly/4loL0sD

#Peatlands #Biodiversity

📷 Stephen Barlow and Nick Littlewood

Logo for Bog Day in lime green and tomato red colours.

#BogDay is fast approaching bringing the opportunity to celebrate bogs, fens, swamps & marshes. The annual event is held this year on 27th July bogday.org

Send details of your events/celebrations to info@iucn.org.uk - we'd love to share your ideas.

#BogDay #CelebratePeatlands #PeatSky

Close up picture of Sphagnum

Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! How are you celebrating? Let's see your pictures.

Find out just some of the many benefits of this amazing habitat in our leaflet, "What's so special about Peatlands". tinyurl.com/tahhvdha

#Peatsky

Photo: Laurie Campbell, NatureScot

#DiwrnodMawndirYByd

Thanks so much, Alice, for contributing to the session, and making it such an excellent event. The recording c an be watched back here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzel... #Peatsky #Webinar

Any help from the #PeatSky hive mind?

Flyer with gold background and white text advertising an online Sphagnum planting webinar. Flyer has two images - a Sphagnum plug plant in the palm of a person's hand in the bottom left and a tray of Sphagnum plug plants in the top right.

ICYMI, the recording from our #SphagnumPlanting webinar is now available to view on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxJ...

Many thanks to all our speakers, who made this a really informative and interesting event. #PeatSky

Incredible images from @fdraper.bsky.social's drone flying. Here's a lovely view of Sphagnum recolonising the recently rewetted "Mini Moss" raised bog site.

A photo looking into the vast landscape of a peatland in Gaick, Scotland, with a small brown dog running towards the camera.

Happy #WildWednesday!

We often use these photos from Gaick we took during the @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social conference to show #peatland restoration. Ending peat sales would mean the #nature and #climate benefits afforded by these efforts wouldn't be undermined by extraction elsewhere.

🌿 Peatlands are among the most powerful natural allies in tackling the global climate, biodiversity, and water crises. Parties to the Convention on Wetlands have long recognized their importance.

www.ramsar.org/news/scaling...

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Three #Peatland roles available with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social. Applications close 26th May

National Peatland Action Programme Team Leader bit.ly/4daaUgG

Peatland Data Support Team Leader bit.ly/4kiSUmU

Survey and Monitoring Team Leader bit.ly/4kdTMsN

#NationalPeatlandAction #PeatSky

👇Listen to Deputy FIrst Minister, @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social inspiring message to peatland practitioners in Wales. 30 practitioners from 14 projects/ organisations spent two great days learning and collaborating.
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @discoverelan.bsky.social

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📣Call for Conference 2025 #Posters. If you would like to present a peatland-themed poster, please send the title of the poster and a short abstract (max. 150 words) to info@iucn.org.uk. Deadline for abstracts - 1st September. Posters should be portrait in format and A0 in size if possible.
#PeatSky

📣We're delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for our 2025 Conference! This year, the annual event takes us to the Ebrington Hotel in the old walled city of Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland where we’ll be exploring the theme, ‘Water Connections: from Source to Sea’ bit.ly/4kuPvST

Fantastic day of insightful discussions and ideas on #peatland #resilience at the @bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social workshop yesterday. Excited to collaborate on the next steps with such a great group! @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Collage of eight photo images of plants, herbs, trees and vegetables grown in peat-free media.

While a ban on using #Peat in horticulture has not yet been implemented, consumers have the choice to use a wide range of #PeatFree media for growing. Check out the snaps from the IUCN UK PP team of their plants, trees, herbs and vegetables living their best peat-free lives. #BankHoliday #PeatFree

Person sitting on a colourful blanket of moss samples made from wool. Person is pointing at a sign that says Be More Moss.

Some colourful #MondayMotivation brought today from Jane, IUCN UK Peatland Programme Manager. Jane loves the creativity used to bring our stunning #Peatlands to life, from craft to film, to the written word.
Our #PeatlandCinema from #PeatConf24 brought together many of these elements bit.ly/3Z2VR2B

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Do you receive our newsletter? Our free online bulletins will be dropping into inboxes every two months. Sign up here bit.ly/3HlQlP9

If you would like to include your #Peatland news in our bulletin contact info@iucn.org.uk. Deadline for May edition is 8th May.
#ENews #Updates #Peatlands

Person wearing a hat kneeling on vegetation by a bog pool. They are taking measurements in the water with an instrument. The sun is shining.

The IUCN UK Peatland Programme-led motion to develop a unified definition of peatlands has successfully passed through its first stage, and is now headed to the World Conservation Congress for debate.

Find out more about why this is an important development bit.ly/4jsMOA6

#Peatlands #Definition

Person kneeling between rocks and vegetation and is looking into a bog pool. The sun is shining.

Some #MondayMotivation from Director, Emma. Emma will be speaking at the upcoming @britishecologicalsociety.org workshop on peatland resilience. The event is fully booked for in-person attendees, but you can still book a place online bit.ly/4327Hwi
#Peatlands #Resilience #Climate

Climate change is expected to increase wildfire devastation. It was good to see that recent peatland restoration by rewetting, at Llyn Gorast, Tywi, proved to be a firebreak.
@natreswales.bsky.social #WelshGovernment
#HighNatureLowCarbon #WalesPeatlandAction
naturalresources.wales/about-us/new...

#Peatland restoration is growing.
Will it be part of your future?
To learn more about NRW’s new supply framework and how Business Wales can support you, register for free:
ymgynghori.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/national-pea...

#WalesPeatlandAction #HighNatureLowCarbon
#WelshGovernment #BusinessWales

Road sign with the words, "Job Vacancy Just Ahead".

TWO new opportunities available for working in #Peatlands.

#PeatlandResearcher at Kew, deadline 20/04/2025 bit.ly/43UYlDC

#CommunicationsOfficer - Peatlands with Lancashire Wildlife Trust, deadline 05/05/2025 bit.ly/3Ec6Hwd

Peatlands International 1.2025 was sent to all IPS members today. Join us still today to read our magazine four times a year! 😊 www.peatlands.org/join-us #peatlands #peat #unfccc #cop30 #gysinge Cover picture by Scott Webb

Group of young people looking at invertebrates on a lowland raised bog.

Communications and Engagement Lead, Rose, has volunteered as reserve convenor on a lowland raised bog for over 15 years. Each year brings new discoveries, and sharing those discoveries, particularly with young people, is hugely motivating. What's your #MondayMotivation?

#Peatlands #Engagement

Closeup photograph of crowberry - a dwarf shrub with red stems and resinous green leaves - by Juliet Klottrup.

Colourful illustration of moorland with trees in the background by Naseem Darby.

Section of a panel showing Sarah Smout's poem "Bog breathing" illustrated with abstract pictures of bog life.

Here's a little teaser for some of the amazing art you can see (and also hear) at our ACE Bogs exhibition, opening on 12th April at Ilkley Manor House. www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
There'll be an online version going live this weekend too!
#GreatNorthBog #PreciousPeatlands

Virtual Peatlands Pavilion World Tour 2025 promotional video Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Would you like your #Peatland stories and resources featured at #COP15Zimbabwe? #PeatlandPavilion will be stopping off at #RamsarCOP as part of its world tour. Submit your content by the end of May - see video (sound up!) tinyurl.com/56ezjv56, or submit here tinyurl.com/3dfzbak2

🎬Richard Lindsay

Watercourse with windmill and buildings.

Researchers from the UKRI Greenhouse Gas Peat project are running a series of FREE workshops in May discussing #Peatland management decisions across different landscales.

14th May, Aberystwyth bit.ly/3Ek82kt
20th May, Ely bit.ly/4jsKCIK
21st May, Glossop bit.ly/3G2VzCm

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Flyer with gold background promoting webinar on sphagnum planting in peatland restoration. Picture of tray of plug plants in top right of flyer. Picture of sphagnum plug plant held in the palm of a hand in bottom left of flyer.

Have you registered for our free #webinar yet? Sphagnum planting in peatland restoration: Science and practice perspectives, 30th April, 2025 - 10:30 - 12:00 GMT.

Find out more and register tinyurl.com/mr2982yx

#Peatland #Science #Policy #Practice

Bog pools on Flow Country blanket bog.

Last July, the #FlowCountry achieved @unesco.org World Heritage status. To celebrate, and raise funds for the Flow Country Partnership, #Peatland scientist, Roxanne Anderson, is undertaking an incredible 110km run on April 18th, World Heritage Site Day.🏃‍♀️‍➡️

👉 bit.ly/3G367RS

📷 Roxanne Anderson