Great news #ForPeatsSake

#CarbonSink #Bogs #Boglands #Fenlands #Wetlands

"Mapping peat to this level of detail will help us maximise the benefits of peat and massively advances our understanding of the role our peatlands are playing in a changing climate.” Dr Sallie Bailey, @naturalengland.bsky.social ’s chief scientist.
#climatechaos #carbon #forpeatssake
#keepthepeat

Land Use Consultation - Defra - Citizen Space This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.

What do we want England to look like?

Less than a month to respond to DEFRAs land-use consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Let's make it more peaty, better for nature, accessible, adaptable and supported in a just way for those working on the land

#peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake

An drawn picture of a Typha plant and a common reed plant. In a circle around these plants are the potential end uses for each of these plants. For Typha this includes bioenergy, starch, bioplastics, restoration, bioremediation, construction, agricultural conditioner, fodder, oil, food and fibres. For common reed this is furnishings, construction, paper, bioplastics, agricultural conditioners, restoration and bioremediation, growing media, bioenergy, fodder, food and starch

What is the market for paludiculture crops? 🌱

As part of my Defra Soils Fellowship I've been looking into the status, size and potential for paludiculture markets in England.

Check out the full report:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake #paludiculture

Sharing all the incredible innovations from the UK's peaty community at the civil service environment network #pioneeringgreeninnivation featuring some of my paludiculture favourites
#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

Science on science on science in the #FalklandIslands

I've loved being part of the knowledge development across Weddell Island, learning how the #peat functions, the links with hydrology and what invertebrates are up to.

#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

A photograph of a peatland landscape with mossy rushes in the foreground. A ditch, now infilled with sphagnum moss takes you further back in the picture towards a tree line in the distance. It is a beautiful blue sky day.

Last week I visited the Winmarleigh #carbonfarm. It was beautiful to be immersed in #sphagnum but it was also great to see how peaty grassland can be converted back to bog.

The trip brought together scientists, farmers, environmentalists and policy makers with fruitful conversations.
#Forpeatssake

Super cool to hear from all those cultivating a sustainable #paludiculture future at Fibrebroads by @norfolkbroads.bsky.social and seeing how architecture students at Norwich University of the Arts have been developing #Typha based materials. 🌱

#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

There were many opportunities for outreach over the past two weeks in the #Falklandislands, a favourite is always visiting the school to talk about why peat is just the coolest

Here is our attempt to core through the classroom floor after the field trip was cancelled
#peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake

Carbon capture? Bodies!

Especially long-lived, or buried-in-peat bodies. Who lives a long time? AND who supports that life. Ecological-nurture-kinshippery. #WhalesAreCarbonToo #OceanLife #TāneMahuta #ForPeatsSake etc, etc.

@tesco still selling peat-based compost today like we're not all in climate and biodiversity crises!
#NoMorePeat #ForPeatsSake