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Peatland Conservation: Securing Benefits & Heritage Values

This programme aims to promote understanding of peatlands' benefits, restore degraded peatlands, and advocate for high-level policies to protect these ecosystems. It focuses on water quality, climate change, and recreational uses of peatlands, with case studies from North York Moors and Peak District. The inquiry seeks to provide authoritative information on peatlands' condition, impacts of activities, and opportunities for restoration, fostering consensus among science, policy, and practice for sustainable management.

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Peatland Conservation: Securing Benefits & Heritage Values

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  1. Clifton Bain Director IUCN UK Peatland Programme

  2. UK Peatlands Programme 2009 – 2012 The programme’s long term vision is for the multiple benefits and heritage values of peatlands to be widely understood and appreciated and for peatlands to be functioning to their full natural potential. There would be no further loss of peatland ecosystems in the UK and all recoverable peatlands would be restored to their active state, with long-term protection and sustainable management. In the short term, the Programme’s aim is for high-level policy to invest now in securing the benefits and heritage values of peatland conservation and avoid the costly consequences of peatland deterioration. The three-year strategy will focus on providing the advocacy and knowledge to inform policy and will help share knowledge on practical restoration approaches and build consensus on the scientific evidence for the ecosystem services that peatlands offer.

  3. Peatland Ecosystem Services • Water quality and management • Climate change mitigation and adaptation • Sport and leisure

  4. North York Moors National Park

  5. ORGANIC MATTER

  6. Hill Drains

  7. Ben Hope, Sutherland

  8. Windfarms and Peat

  9. Peak District Blanket BogThe most degraded upland peat anywhere in Europe following 200 years of atmospheric pollution and fire damage. Black Hill 2005

  10. Moors for the Future – landscape scale restoration starting in 2002………. Black Hill 2008

  11. ….but still significant erosion to overcome….. Woodhead estate, Bleaklow Moor….Today

  12. Aims of the Inquiry • To provide an authoritative briefing on the state of peatlands, the impacts of different activities and the benefits and opportunities for restoring them • To build a consensus between science, policy and practice aimed at supporting action – recognising the range of social, environmental and economic drivers • To manage the process through partnership and to encourage broad ownership

  13. Review Teams • State of peatlands • Climate change (in collaboration with JNCC review) • Peatland biodiversity • Impacts of peatland restoration • Impacts of burning management • Peatland hydrology • Policy measures for sustainable management

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