Leave peat undisturbed – in bogs, not bags!
New analysis by The Wildlife Trusts has calculated the shocking impacts of extracting peat for use in horticulture.
News: Peatland restoration
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Players of People’s Postcode Lottery help to bring back wetland wildlife and tackle climate change near Witherslack, South Lakes
Generous donation of £90,000 by People’s Postcode Lottery initiative, designed to support projects tackling climate change, has made it possible for us to buy new land for peatland restoration and…
New inov-8 campaign to help tackle climate change
inov-8 launches For Peat’s Sake, a Green Friday campaign to help Cumbria's peatlands
£1.1 million of Nature for Climate funding to restore precious North West peatlands
Peatlands the size of 250 football pitches will be restored across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria, thanks to funding from the Government’s Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme,…
Peatland projects rise to the climate challenge
The Wildlife Trusts unveil 12 new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Among them is our work to restore…
The Wildlife Trusts call for an immediate end to peat sales
Survey of top retailers: only one of 20 says they will eliminate peat this year
Run for the Hills Challenge supports carbon reduction projects
The Lake District-based brand inov-8 has donated a further £2,400 to Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Inov-8 donates £9,600 to Cumbria Wildlife Trust
The Lake District-based brand inov-8, who specialise in running, hiking and fitness gear, has raised £9,600 for Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
Trust receives grant of £249,500 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund
Cumbria Wildlife Trust is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from the government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund.
Black Friday goes green
Outdoor kit company inov-8 will donate funds from this year’s Black Friday sale to the Trust to help reduce CO2