Have a read of this blog promoted on #BogDay to celebrate the brilliance of peatlands.
We're working with #GreatNorthBog partners as part of @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social to help restore & protect peatlands which have so much power to store carbon & provide homes for declining wildlife.
Did you celebrate #BogDay by learning more about #pauldiculture? We've been delighted to collaborate with regenerative designer, Lucy Mitchell, on a very special project using the paludiculture crops being trialled in the Great Fen...
Yesterday on #BogDay our former colleague Eva Hernández Herrero shared a beautiful message and a great initiative to draw attention on the need to conserve, restore and better manage peatlands. Read her post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/eva-he...
Boggy blooms: Common Heather, Bell Heather & Cross-leaved Heath
Large Heath butterfly. A peatland-specialist. Their caterpillars feel on Cotton-grasses.
The lovely Tansley Bog at Loch Maree within the Beinn Eighe NNR. I visited this lovely wee bog earlier this year.
Sphagnum snowflake.
Happy #BogDay! Celebrating brilliant bogs and their importance for carbon sequestration, water capture & purification, gorgeous habitats, specialist biodiversity, history & culture. Find out more at bogday.org
Aerial view of Männikjärve Bog, Estonia, from an observation tower. Dark bog pools contrast against green and red mossy carpets, with a few stunted trees peppered across the landscape.
Happy International #BogDay! I was lucky enough to visit some stunning bogs in #Estonia and #Latvia earlier this month. They're home to unique species and store vast amounts of carbon in the saturated peat.
Sundews in boggy mud
Low, boggy vegetation in the foreground; tall rushes in the background
Boggy bits around Hatchet Pond in the New Forest.
#BogDay #NewForest
🟫🌱 #BogDay – celebrating the brilliance of bogs. There are a variety of rare plants and animals which can be found on our bogs in the North Pennines.
#bog #peatlands #peatland #peatlandsmatter
“I am always up for a bog, said Mary.”
Mary Ruefle, “Dunce”
from the collection, Dunce
#SundaySentence
#BogDay
A glorious blue sky and rugged mountain reflected in a large pool, surrounded by spongy dollops of land, edged with young birch trees
A grey cloudy sky over a mostly brown bog, with a boardwalk winding through it. Bare branches, some covered in pale green lichen, poke out of the grassy, mossy ground
A dark red moss mat comprised of tiny rosettes, contrasting with an almost white tree-like lichen, with many small branches
It's #BogDay? I have not been in one for too long, but they're fabulous ecosystems we should do more to protect and nourish, and I really need to visit one soon
A flat expanse of bog and pools, with a large mountain/hill in the background
Happy #BogDay Here's one from the Flow Country (Scotland) taken earlier in the summer Bogs are great archives of environmental history, as well as home to lots of biodiversity & provide lots of ecosystem services 😊
Front cover of Peatland Archaeology displaying a Neolithic wooden trackway from Edercloon, Co. Longford
Let’s celebrate peatland archaeology this international #BogDay! www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...
A foggy, overcast spring day. A wooden boardwalk cuts through reddish, orange-y vegetation with small conifers
Detail of red pitcher plants among other reddish, orange-y vegetation
Another bog for #BogDay. I always imagine mastodons roaming along the edges.
A footpath across a flat moor landscape with a grey cloudy sky. The text reads 'A new path #moorviews'
This #BogDay seems apt to announce that I am starting a PhD @york.ac.uk in September with @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and the Department of Archaeology. I will be researching the past ecology of the North Yorks Moors and using this evidence to explore views about the future landscape #MoorViews 🪧
Purple cones at the top of a conifer
A pitcher plant filled with water among other vegetation
Detail of a couple of other pitcher plants
A wooden boardwalk leading through vegetation and trees through the bog
#BogDay with pictures of a local bog in early spring
To mark #bogday we are celebrating Partnership. Without strong and successful partnership, landscape scale change would not be possible. When Moors for the Future Partnership began in 2003 we could only imagine what over 20 years of working side by side could achieve and continues to achieve.
Image of a big with water and red moss in the foreground and conifer trees in the background.
Photo of sundews on moss.
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
Didn't realise it was #BogDay today
- below is one of our study sites in Northern Finland - sadly the permafrost palsas there are thawing rapidly and in a few years time it will be a very different place.
Two young people peer at a box of soil on Dartmoor. They wear T shirts and leggings and they have nets with them for pond dipping.
Happy #BogDay! This month, primary school pupils from Plymouth donned their wellies and headed to Dartmoor with poets Jonah Corren & Poppy Jayne Jones & the South West Peatland Partnership rangers. Read about their day & how we've exploring environmental themes through poetry at bit.ly/RenewBogBlog
Happy #BogDay!
Happy #WorldBogDay!
Celebrating the wonders of peatlands with the changing colours from 2 of the #PeatColour sites
#BogDay #Peatlands
Cotton grass a common bog plant it’s fluffy seed heads have been used for pillow stuffing candle wicks and wound dressing though it would take some time to collect!
#bogday
#nature
#westlochtarbert
Heads up, peatniks, it's #BogDay! We hope you'll enjoy this blog post from @lyndonmarquis.bsky.social about why the #GreatNorthBog needs to be appreciated for more than just a list of ecosystem services: www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
Books: KARIN SANDERS BODIES IN THE BOG THE BOG PEOPLE Iron-Age Man Preserved FULLY ILLUSTRATED by P.V. GLOB
Happy International #BogDay.
View of four men cutting and collecting turf at a bog in Connemara, County Galway.
Happy International #BogDay!
Our latest blog explores the fascinating history of peat bogs in Ireland as well as their important function as vital habitats for biodiversity and as carbon sinks: dri.ie/news/ireland...
North Pennines peatland with a large bog pool.
Aerial view of peatland restoration work in the North Pennines. Stone dams and coir rolls across channels of water.
Today marks #BogDay 🟫🌱. We are celebrating our bogs across the North Pennines National Landscape. Since 2006, our team’s peatland programme has been carrying out #peatlandrestoration work to restore these important ecosystems.
Find out more: buff.ly/GAzcaaS
#bog #bogs #peatland #peatlandsmatter
Today is basically Christmas for us. It's #BogDay 🎉
Time to celebrate one of the UK's least loved habitats. Remote, severe, and damp underfoot, peat bogs are iconic landscapes.
Follow to stay tuned for action this August to #EndPeatSales - we'll need your help 💪
#Nature #Climate #PeatFree
@jortsthecat.bsky.social hello Jorts, I thought you might like to know that today is #bogday
bogday.org
Close up of Sphagnum moss with Common sundew
Black-throated diver taking off from water
It’s #BogDay and this time last year, the Flow Country became the first peat bog in the world awarded World Heritage Site status 🎉
Healthy peatlands can:
🔒 Act as carbon sinks, locking away CO2
💧 Improve water quality
💪 Support flood management
🏠 Provide a home for wildlife
📷 Paul Turner, Andy Hay
A photograph of young people exploring Dartmoor with a guide from the South West Peatland Partnership.
Happy #BogDay!
Discover how the UK’s leading #poetry organisation - @poetrysociety.bsky.social has been working with young people to raise awareness about climate change & to encourage young people to use their creativity to advocate for the natural world.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/exploring-bi...
A single round leaved sundew plant (Drosera rotundifolia) sits in a bed of squishy looking moss.
Its #BogDay!
Let's celebrate by getting BOGged down in some papers 😉
Peatlands are key to carbon storage and flood management, but in the UK, many are in poor condition
Read on to hear about the nature benefits of bog restoration in Scotland’s Flow Country 🧪 🌍
📷 Ben Andrew
