Our #peatlands and blanket bogs are vital carbon sinks that help combat climate change. Our UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldHeritage Site recognition will strengthen conservation efforts, enhancing #FlowCountry’s critical role in carbon sequestration. Together, we can make a difference! 🌿💚

Just the 65 turbines envisaged for Walshaw Moor deep peatland. Read the conversation between Nick Mackinnon and Myra (Frank was rather quiet) and see which view you would espouse Ed Miliband Angela Rayner Rachel Reeves markavery.info/2024/07/27/gue… Yes, we need onshore windfarms -

Today is @IUCNPeat #BogDay To celebrate we would like to share this film about our long-running science & monitoring programme on #KinderScout which shows what is possible working in partnership - Sphagnum moss - an inspiring case study on Kinder Scout (youtube.com)

Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out, courtesy of our wonderful supporter Mark Avery markavery.info/2024/07/27/gue…

We're delighted that the author and conservationist Mark Avery is joining us at this public meeting int Haworth - come along! eventbrite.com/e/public-meeti…

Rooftop solar is a common sense way to deliver clean energy without impacting the countryside, nature and food security. But the potential of rooftop solar continues to be overlooked, including in national policy. We want to change that. Here's why 👇 cpre.org.uk/explainer/roof…

📢#Peat job alert! What a great opportunity with iCASP to help scale up #peatland restoration in some fabulous places.

Amazing - and such things are happening all the time in our world without us knowing or noticing...

Latest guest blog in the Walshaw Turbines super-series. This by John Page where he visits carved rocks and stones scattered across the landscape, amongst other things bit.ly/3YEZEnC Calderdale Council @StrongerTogetherToStopCalderdaleWindFarm Jenny Shepherd

It's heather time around Haworth!

If you want to know why building a massive wind farm on super-protected peat isn’t a good idea, come to our meeting on 5 September, 7pm in Haworth. Speakers include Mark Avery Robbie Moore MP and our blogger Nick MacKinnon. It’s FREE but bag your seat here: eventbrite.com/e/public-meeti…

Mid-week book review: The Last Crow by Bob Berzins 'Another novel about the murky upland world of somewhere near you? Badgers, grouse moors, lords, rich businessmen, snares, machetes, rifles, Hen Harriers, modern slavery and so much more. It’s a good follow-up to Bob’s previous

16th in blog super-series on lunacy of plans for 65 wind turbines for Walshaw Moor, W. Yorks. 🧵 Attention span of a goldfish, then this isn't for you. It ends: 'Britain needs wind power, but it doesn’t need dirty, expensive wind on remote watershed peat, & it doesn’t need

Nick MacKinnon’s latest blog, kindly hosted by Mark Avery is out. Best read with a cup of tea and not when cutting an onion markavery.info/2024/08/23/gue…

The The Wildlife Trusts has acquired Skiddaw! This landscape, which is treasured by so many, will see restoration of peatlands, woodlands and more. Let there be no doubt, this is a milestone moment for nature restoration in @LakeDistrictNPA and beyond. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

The Last Crow postcard makes it to a misty Walshaw Moor. On my way to public meeting to stop the Walshaw turbines.

REVEALED: I've mapped the land owned by water companies United Utilities & Yorkshire Water - over 200,000 acres combined - & their SSSIs (nature reserves) Just 16% of SSSIs owned by water firms in England are in favourable condition Feargal Sharkey 1/ whoownsengland.org/2024/09/05/map…

We held a packed out meeting in #Haworth last night, with many thanks to Mark Avery Robbie Moore MP Jenny Richards @pjohnsonsongbird blogger Nick MacKinnon and singer songwriter John Drury. This is a envisioned video of the proposed wind farm on the protected peat of our moor ☹️

This week our team travelled up to Oxenhope to create a Sphagnum demonstration lawn with Moors for the Future! We planted 6,000+ Sphagnum BeadaHumok at high density. These will grow together to exhibit the benefits of intensive revegetation in accelerating peatland restoration!