It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like #Christmoss! Have you been good peatland practitioners and restored a lot of #Peatland this year? #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog #Christmas

@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social is highlighting the lack of Government action on the horticultural peat ban despite overwhelming support. Please sign the @peatfree.bsky.social petition, write to your MP & go #PeatFree in your own garden. www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-marquis/bogs-not-bags

Last week of our autumn monitoring - thanks so much to all the volunteers who've come out to help us collect valuable data for the #GreatNorthBog. Thus was the view on Wednesday - drizzly finish following a frosty start.

Our fantastic volunteers braving the #Cold and literally breaking the #Ice to collect #Bog pool water in the #YorkshireDales. #Peatland #Research #GreatNorthBog

Two pictures of a newly formed surface bund a week apart and after the rain. So much #Water! 💧 #PeatlandRestoration #GreatNorthBog

What would legislation to #EndPeatSales contain? 👇 Our legislative asks are now up on our website. See the full description of what we're campaigning for: peatfreepartnership.org.uk/who-we-are/o...

In its carbon budget, the Govt gave its clearest commitment yet to banning the use of horticultural peat. The hort industry uses 760,000 cubic metres of peat a year so a 2031 timeframe really isn't good enough. Please sign the petition now: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

First snow of the year in our area of the #GreatNorthBog - #WinterIsComing

Not a #Sphagnum but what a display! We usually see a couple dozen of #Curlew at once but that many is incredible!! 🪶 #Bird #GreatNorthBog (credit: Beth Thomas)

ICYMI, we've been working to expand capacity in the #GreatNorthBog with our LANTRA accredited peatland practitioner course. We were lucky to have one of the participants - thanks, Evie - write a review of the course: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/evie-me... Course details in the blog post.

An autumnal bouquet of #Sphagnum for a rainy Monday morning. #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog

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 🕷️🕸️

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!!!

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

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.

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

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...

Heading to #Ingleborough or #Whernside next week? We're planning to transport material with helicopters onto the two peaks, starting 29/9/25 weather dependent. 👷Please follow instructions from contractors on the ground who will be manning footpaths to ensure your safety. @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social

Ever wondered how soggy landscapes can help fight climate change? 🌍💧 Immerse yourself in the carbon-storing magic of peatland pools in @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social 's latest blog. 👇 yppartnership.org.uk/blog/gautier-nicoli/bogged-down-carbon-adventures-peatland-pools

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!

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

Classic traffic jam in the Dales 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 #Sheep #PeatlandRestoration #GreatNorthBog

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).

Great news for Ingleborough (and its visitors)!

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

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.

The North York Moors fire will be devastating to wildlife - thank you to everyone tirelessly tackling the blaze, from the fire service and volunteers to local land managers. Our countryside is incredibly dry, please: 🔥Do not light a BBQ or stoves anywhere 🔥Take all your litter home 🔥No smoking

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

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

The @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social is setting up plots for the monitoring season. It’s important that we monitor the effects of restoration to understand how our interventions are working & how they may be improved. yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-marquis/monitoring-ure-dales 1/2

Some lovely sphagnum carpets on Fleet Moss yesterday, still wet and springy despite the dry weather we've had in the #GreatNorthBog.

Not a Sphagnum but still pretty cool: a (blue) violet ground beetle

Lovely little clip of a sphagnum carpet and some sundews in the #GreatNorthBog. The sphagnum is a bit crispy in patches but it will recover.

Say hello to our little friends! Plenty of reptiles and amphibians in the #GreatNorthBog!

Sundew overload!!! Barely enough room left for #Sphagnum 😄 #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog

ICYMI, hear our Beth Thomas and our partners, Kingsdale Head Farm and Woodland Trust, talking about a slightly different approach to upland management on Radio 4's On Your Farm: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Training: @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social: YPP Training: Monitoring Peatlands c-js.info/TDScons

We went back to a site that was restored about 2 years ago. It is very nice to see nice Sphagnum-rich pools have formed next to the peat dams. Sphagnum plugs are also doing great (now more than 200 times their initial size). Happy times 😀 #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog

Stumbled across* some Sphagnum medium today, which is one of my very favourite species. Also an oak eggar moth, of which I have seen many caterpillars, but never an adult. Happy #YorkshireDay to all who celebrate. #GreatNorthBog *it was pointed out to me by someone with much better id skills

There are still places available on our Monitoring Peatlands course at the end of August, but they're filling up fast! Book now to reserve yours. #GreatNorthBog www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ypp-traini...

Bog Cruise: Greenhouse gases hovercraft patrolling sphagnum-covered bog pools #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog