Yorkshire Peat Partnership
@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social
Rewet, replant, restore
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Night of the Living Bog Bodies! 🧟Happy #Halloween everyone! 🎃🦇 (No Peat Practitioner Assistants were hurt in the making of these pictures) #Peatland #GreatNorthBog
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Night of the Living Bog Bodies! 🧟Happy #Halloween everyone! 🎃🦇 (No Peat Practitioner Assistants were hurt in the making of these pictures) #Peatland #GreatNorthBog
Spiders have taken over the bog! Just in time for #Spooktober! 🎃A very nice display of the tiny #wildlife relying on peatlands' good health #GreatNorthBog #Halloween 🕷️🕸️
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Spiders have taken over the bog! Just in time for #Spooktober! 🎃A very nice display of the tiny #wildlife relying on peatlands' good health #GreatNorthBog #Halloween 🕷️🕸️
If you're in Bradford on 28/10, join us to find out about #peatlands & the #GreatNorthBog at #Bradford2025 Science Festival: www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/bra...
Our @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Marine colleagues will be there too to tell you about seagrass.
#ForScience!!!
Our @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Marine colleagues will be there too to tell you about seagrass.
#ForScience!!!
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you're in Bradford on 28/10, join us to find out about #peatlands & the #GreatNorthBog at #Bradford2025 Science Festival: www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/bra...
Our @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Marine colleagues will be there too to tell you about seagrass.
#ForScience!!!
Our @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Marine colleagues will be there too to tell you about seagrass.
#ForScience!!!
It was a real joy to share M19 – Blanket Mire with these brilliant schools as part of #Bradford2025. Thanks to everyone that took part in celebrating both this wonderful city and the #GreatNorthBog: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2555051...
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It was a real joy to share M19 – Blanket Mire with these brilliant schools as part of #Bradford2025. Thanks to everyone that took part in celebrating both this wonderful city and the #GreatNorthBog: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2555051...
Mushroom, #Sphagnum turning red and brown and spider webs. #Autumn is here! 🍄 🍂 #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Mushroom, #Sphagnum turning red and brown and spider webs. #Autumn is here! 🍄 🍂 #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
Your scientists were so preoccupied with wheth-... just kidding, we are not reintroducing dinosaurs to the #GreatNorthBog, and we have taken this plastic out of the peat.
October 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with wheth-... just kidding, we are not reintroducing dinosaurs to the #GreatNorthBog, and we have taken this plastic out of the peat.
Sometimes - just sometimes, mind - we get a bit of sunshine in the #GreatNorthBog! Glorious day monitoring on the Wharfedale/Wensleydale watershed.
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sometimes - just sometimes, mind - we get a bit of sunshine in the #GreatNorthBog! Glorious day monitoring on the Wharfedale/Wensleydale watershed.
Peatland restoration in action! #Sphagnum eating away a coir bund! num-num-num #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Peatland restoration in action! #Sphagnum eating away a coir bund! num-num-num #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
We use peat bunds to slow the flow of water across the surface of the bog and hold peat sediment back on the moor. Once that's happening, vegetation can establish. Can you spot the bund?
#GreatNorthBog
#GreatNorthBog
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We use peat bunds to slow the flow of water across the surface of the bog and hold peat sediment back on the moor. Once that's happening, vegetation can establish. Can you spot the bund?
#GreatNorthBog
#GreatNorthBog
ICYMI, we're helping to monitor how microbial activity and GHG emissions change in response to peatland restoration in the #GreatNorthBog - find out more in our blog post:
www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/gautier...
www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/gautier...
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
ICYMI, we're helping to monitor how microbial activity and GHG emissions change in response to peatland restoration in the #GreatNorthBog - find out more in our blog post:
www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/gautier...
www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/gautier...
When old meets new. Two restoration interventions, 10 years apart. The timber dam has been overgrown by #Sphagnum and #Cottongrass. We then added a coir log to improve water retention in some part of the gully. #PeatlandRestoration #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
September 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
When old meets new. Two restoration interventions, 10 years apart. The timber dam has been overgrown by #Sphagnum and #Cottongrass. We then added a coir log to improve water retention in some part of the gully. #PeatlandRestoration #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
Before and after shots of two hags on a restoration site in @yorkshiredales.org.uk - what a difference a week makes in the #GreatNorthBog!
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Before and after shots of two hags on a restoration site in @yorkshiredales.org.uk - what a difference a week makes in the #GreatNorthBog!
Great to be in Westminster talking #Peatlands & the #GreatNorthBog with Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to all who gave their time & attention to listen to us making the case for for #Restoration, and to @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Rachael Bice for making that case so eloquently.
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Great to be in Westminster talking #Peatlands & the #GreatNorthBog with Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to all who gave their time & attention to listen to us making the case for for #Restoration, and to @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Rachael Bice for making that case so eloquently.
Some updates from the #MegaBog at Cliffe Castle Museum: it's doing great! A lot of #Sphagnum, a lot of sedges! Much green, #MuchWow! #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
September 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Some updates from the #MegaBog at Cliffe Castle Museum: it's doing great! A lot of #Sphagnum, a lot of sedges! Much green, #MuchWow! #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
September 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A fantastic hummock among the sedges. How many different #Sphagnum species can you identify? 🕵️ #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A fantastic hummock among the sedges. How many different #Sphagnum species can you identify? 🕵️ #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
Although it's not part of the #GreatNorthBog, it's always great to get to Potteric Carr. Today we shared our work with @yorkswildlife.bsky.social members - lovely to meet so many of you! (wind meant our displays had to be more horizontal than usual).
September 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Although it's not part of the #GreatNorthBog, it's always great to get to Potteric Carr. Today we shared our work with @yorkswildlife.bsky.social members - lovely to meet so many of you! (wind meant our displays had to be more horizontal than usual).
Ladybirds helping out with the monitoring on one of the newly installed rain gauges - they can confirm it's raining in the #GreatNorthBog! Find out more about our monitoring: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
September 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ladybirds helping out with the monitoring on one of the newly installed rain gauges - they can confirm it's raining in the #GreatNorthBog! Find out more about our monitoring: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
Sphagnum and drosera in a wet scottish woodland. #Sphagnum is everywhere 😶 #SphagnumMonday
September 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sphagnum and drosera in a wet scottish woodland. #Sphagnum is everywhere 😶 #SphagnumMonday
If you're visiting the #GreatNorthBog this weekend, please leave the BBQ at home, no naked flames, no smoking, no litter - we don't want another fire destroying wildlife, livelihoods or our #PreciousPeatlands.
August 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you're visiting the #GreatNorthBog this weekend, please leave the BBQ at home, no naked flames, no smoking, no litter - we don't want another fire destroying wildlife, livelihoods or our #PreciousPeatlands.
It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban: www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...
#GreatNorthBog
#GreatNorthBog
August 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban: www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...
#GreatNorthBog
#GreatNorthBog
A nice, comfy #Sphagnum carpet to rest on after the long weekend. Also: the rain is back! Which will make all the species in our #Peatlands very happy! 🌧️ #GreatNorthBog
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A nice, comfy #Sphagnum carpet to rest on after the long weekend. Also: the rain is back! Which will make all the species in our #Peatlands very happy! 🌧️ #GreatNorthBog
Magnificent sphagnum hammock on Swarth Moor this afternoon - what a beast! #GreatNorthBog
August 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Magnificent sphagnum hammock on Swarth Moor this afternoon - what a beast! #GreatNorthBog
Some lovely sphagnum carpets on Fleet Moss yesterday, still wet and springy despite the dry weather we've had in the #GreatNorthBog.
August 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Some lovely sphagnum carpets on Fleet Moss yesterday, still wet and springy despite the dry weather we've had in the #GreatNorthBog.