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Westhay Moor Peatland Restoration Project

Peatlands are an amazing part of our landscapes, not only for the rare and specialised species they support but for the ecosystem services they provide like storing carbon, filtering drinking water, mitigating flood waters etc. Yet 80% of the UK’s peatland are degraded, emitting carbon and threatening the species the support.
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Westhay Moor Peatland Restoration Project FAQ

Somerset Wildlife Trust will be carrying out peat restoration work at Westhay Moor National Nature Reserve. The work is being funded by the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme which is administered by Natural England on behalf of Defra.
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Land Management and agriculture on functioning peatlands

Peatlands are amazing, wild places, home to rare and unusual plants, birds and insects. They are wetland landscapes characterised by waterlogged soils made of dead and decaying plants, called peat. Find out more about land management and agriculture on functioning peatlands.
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Peat Restoration Case Studies

Read what the Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust are doing to restore peatland in Yorkshire and Wales.
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What's next for Honeygar?

Our aim is for the buildings at Honeygar to become an internationally recognised hub for research, innovation and collaboration in lowland peatland restoration. Learn more.
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Land caddis

The Land caddis is the only caddisfly in the UK to spend its entire time on land, with no stage in water. Look in oak leaf litter over winter to see the grainy cases of the larvae, in which they…

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