We're delighted to share some big news!

Introducing our most ambitious peatland conservation programme to date, Moor Resilience 2030: www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/the-latest

#PeakDistrict #SouthPennines #Peatlands #Moorlands #BlanketBog #Biodiversity #Carbon #Water #Climate

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social please give our #SaveRestoreWalshawMoor campaign and Parliamentary Petition a shout out! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73.... We're trying to #DoTheRightThing by #blanketbog, and to enourage #CalderValleyMP @joshfg.bsky.social to do so as well.

@joshfg.bsky.social why didn't you speak up for #BlanketBog yesterday like other Labour MPs in #chalkstream constituencies spoke up for the Lords' chalkstream protection amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill, and also abstained from voting to reject it? So disappointed in your silence.

Desperately seeking Ministers’ support for blanket bog protection amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill We have written to the Minister for Housing and Planning, the Minister for Nature and the Minister for Energy requesting protection for irreplaceable blanket bog in the Planning and Infrastructure …

But not on #irreplaceable #blanketbog saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...

Desperately seeking Ministers’ support for blanket bog protection amendment to Planning and Infrastructure Bill We have written to the Minister for Housing and Planning, the Minister for Nature and the Minister for Energy requesting protection for irreplaceable blanket bog in the Planning and Infrastructure …

Desperately seeking Ministers' support for #blanketbog protection amendment to #PlanningInfrastructureBill saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...

We are asking @joshfg.bsky.social to vote for Amendment 130, the chalk streams amendment and also to ask @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to extend the chalk streams amendment to #blanketbog saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/p...

Peers vote to protect irreplaceable chalk streams – let’s ask the government to protect irreplaceable blanket bog too The Peatland Alliance groups’ campaign to amend the government’s contentious Planning and Infrastructure Bill is now down to the wire as the Bill enters the final strait in Parliament. If you haven…

If any #CalderValley constituents are up for urgently emailing our MP about the latest in the #PlanningInfrastructureBill amendments saga, here's a template #blanketbog #chalkstreams #Irreplaceablehabitats saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/p...

Semi-abstract landscape inspired by the Flow Country, in Northern Scotland: designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024. Layers of paint have been built up to create the dark, rocky bogland in the foreground, the blue of the pools beyond, with the outline of the Ben Griams on the horizon. A large area of yellows in the top left quarter give the impression of bright sunrise, reflected off both mountains and water.

'Dùthaich nam Boglaichean': Mixed media on hessian, 100 x 150cm. #landscapepainting #acrylics #oils #Scotland #FlowCountry #blanketbog #unesco #conservation

Campaigners' plea as new petition calls for wind farm ban on peatlands A NEW parliamentary petition has been launched calling for wind farms to be banned on protected peatlands.

Thanks to Keighley News for reporting this important call to amend the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill and ban #NSIP #Windfarms on protected #Peatland #irreplaceable #blanketbog www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/2558283...

Petition: Amend the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to ban wind farms on protected peatland We want the government to amend its Planning & Infrastructure Bill to: 1. Ban wind farms on peatland in the National Site Network and SSSIs in England, and 2. Require the restoration to good conservat...

80 more signatures and petition's at 7K - please sign and share to tell government to Amend PlanningAndInfrastructureBill to rule out windfarms on #irreplaceable #BlanketBog petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

If you live in #laneshawbridge #trawden or #colne or use Two Laws/Lancashire Moor Road, this makes interesting reading…
#wycoller #pendle #walshaw #stopcalderdalewindfarm #protectourpeat #brontëcountry #blanketbog

We have a new website!

www.stopcalderdaleenergypark.com

#savewalshawmoor
#stopcalderdalewindfarm #peat #moor #blanketbog #curlew #lapwing #merlin #skylark #sphagnum #walshaw #hebdenbridge #haworth #bronte #brontë #wutheringheights #plath #tedhughes #brontecountry #brontëcountry

Urgent irreplaceable habitat questions for Nature Minister 7 minutes read time Ban the Burn, ForUs Tree and Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network have just written to the Nature Minister, Mary Creagh MP. We asked her to address our concerns about DEFRA’s propo…

Urgent questions to #NatureMinister Mary Creagh about DEFRA's #BiodiversityNetGain for big #onshore #windfarms likely to undermine protections for #blanketbog #irreplaceable habitat saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/u...

Twelve Bens from near summit of Diamond Hill (photo: Michael O'Connell, 2025-07-10)

View to NE: Kylemore and its lakes in glacially deepened valley (photo: Michael O'Connell, 2025-07-10)

View to SW on descent from Diamond Hill. Tussocks of purple moor grass (Molinia) dominant (photo: Michael O'Connell, 2025-07-10)

View to SW across expanses of blanket bog that it partly interrupted by afforestation that is some decades old. In the distance, Ballyconneely, Doon Hill (of volcanic origin) and ultimately Slyne Head, the western point of Co. Galway (photo: Michael O'Connell, 2025-07-10)

Descent via the #DiamondHillLoop also affords spectacular views. To east, Peaks of the #TwelveBens, further glimpses of #Kylemore, sheep grazing, & views of #BlanketBog stretching as far as Ballyconneely & beyond @npwsireland.bsky.social @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

Peat-friendly peers speak up for blanket bog and other irreplaceable habitats We asked some peat-friendly peers to speak up to protect blanket bog in the House of Lords’ second reading of the Planning and Infrastructure BIll [As Brought From Commons]. Thanks to ev…

#Peat-friendly #peers speak up for #blanketbog and other #irreplaceable habitats - "not dying in a ditch but in a #chalkstream—we will fight to the last to have these irreplaceable habitats recognised in the Bill as such.” saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/p...

Peat-friendly peers speak up for blanket bog and other irreplaceable habitats We asked some peat-friendly peers to speak up to protect blanket bog in the House of Lords’ second reading of the Planning and Infrastructure BIll [As Brought From Commons]. Thanks to ev…

@bishopnorwich.bsky.social
Thought this might interest you - we did email you before the HoL second reading on the #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill. Please speak up for #blanketbog as it can't speak for itself saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/p...

Two people are standing on a raised bog, photographing and recording botanical species. There are tree-covered hills in the background. Credit WTML.

The small red berries of bog cranberry are visible amongst a red and green patchwork of species on the floor of a bog; grasses and mosses are also present. Credit WTML

Lots of small white heads of hare's tail cotton grass are blowing in the breeze on a blanket bog. There are tree covered hills in the background. Credit WTML

A dozen purple flowering heath-spotted orchids standing tall on a blanket bog surrounded by lots of grasses and hare's tail cotton grass. Credit WTML.

Surveying a central Scotland #blanketbog last week revealed a veritable floral feast including bog cranberry, heath spotted orchids and plenty of hare's tail cotton grass. With thanks to @bsbiscotland.bsky.social‬ recorder Liz for sharing her expertise. Great to see such high biodiversity.

A late Golden Plover nest found while surveying on Dove Stone. Initially found with 2 eggs mid-May and revisited with now these 4 eggs an accurate hatch date of 14th June can be worked out. Probably a repeat nest? #birds #wader #blanketbog @wadertales.bsky.social

Our petition to Parliament to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England has 10000+ names! Thanks to all who’ve signed so far - let’s keep on keeping on and #protectourpeat #stopcalderdalewindfarm #teampeat #teamnature #teambat #teamnewt #walshaw #moor #peat #blanketbog

Anyone for Labrador Tea! A main bush and a few satellites nearby still surviving on Dove Stone. #darkpeak #blanketbog #plants

Blanket Bog pools on RSPB Dove Stone now becoming very dry with the run of dry weather but hopefully some re-wetting with the rain forecast for the next couple of days. #dovestone #darkpeak #blanketbog

Early Golden Plover nest this year on the start of my survey RSPB Dove Stone. Hopefully it follows through to hatching and fledging - it will be monitored throughout. #GoldenPlover #BlanketBog. @rspbengland.bsky.social

MPs urge safeguards for unique habitats amid planning reforms Big thanks to the handful of MPs who are so far the only ones bothered about the lack of protection for irreplaceable habitats in the face of the Government’s planning reforms that are now going th…

MPs urge safeguards for unique habitats amid planning reforms #peatland #blanketbog #chalkstreams #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/m...

Great blog by @green--jenny.bsky.social courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social ... This is why wind farms must not be built on protected peatland:

markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...

#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat

@calderdale.bsky.social What about a Charter of Rights for Walshaw Moor #blanketbog

Windfarm would be disaster for walkers and nature lovers, say Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd Walkers’ Action Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd Walkers Action led a group of 12 people up this Walshaw Moor track above the reservoirs to Heather Hill on Saturday 22nd February.  It was a beautiful sunny day w…

@ramblers.org.uk #Windfarm on #WalshawMoor #blanketbog would be disaster for walkers and nature lovers, say #HebdenBridge & #Mytholmroyd walkers action group saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/w...

Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.

We’re fighting to save our #SPA #SAC #blanketbog in #Brontë country from destruction by a massive wind farm and are petitioning parliament to ban wind farms on protected peatland petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... - please help us by signing and sharing #stopcalderdalewindfarm

One natural solution, Josh, would be NOT to have what would be the largest onshore wind farm in England on Walshaw Moor. Do you agree? Lots of your constituents do.. 422 of them have signed our petition since Monday #slowtheflow #windfarm #flooding #hebdenbridge #haworth #bronte #blanketbog #peat

Many feathers sunken in a pool of water with vegetation growing out of it

Sunken feathers in a bog pool
#northumberland
#hadrianswall
#blanketbog