Guided walk on Thorne Moors
Doncaster Today
The moors are part of Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve and the guided walk will begin at 10am. Natural England has organised the event and it expected to last approximately three hours with the distance about four to five miles in length ...

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Farmers Light Fire Under Minister For Turf-Cutters
Build.ie
The restrictions on turf cutting were introduced after a government funded four-year report, called Boglands, which found though peat soils cover 20% of the national land area, there were no more intact raised bogs in Ireland while very few peatlands ...

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Rebel hero who has 'betrayed' the last of Aceh's orang-utans
The Independent
But, five years on, Mr Irwandi has dismayed supporters by authorising the destruction of a peat swamp forest which is one of the last refuges of the critically endangered Sumatran orang-utan. The move breaches a presidential moratorium – part of an ...

Bird Watch
Moves to restore Scottish peatlands
Bird Watch
The RSPB has urged the Scottish government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland's peatlands. The call came on the first day of a meeting in Edinburgh by scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to develop ...

Peatland restoration
Stornoway Gazette
RSPB Scotland has urged the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland's peatlands. The call comes on the first day of a meeting in Edinburgh by scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to develop ...

Money Is All That's Green in Biodiesel
Reuters AlertNet
Biodiesel made from the many palm oil plantations on Indonesia's peatlands have a "carbon debt of 200 years", said Louis Verchot, a research scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia. This means it will take 200 ...

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Harvie, P - Opencast Mining
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Scottish Green Party): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects developers of (a) opencast coal mines on peatlands and (b) peat extraction sites to carry out a carbon emissions assessment and what the reasons are for ...

The Compost Bomb: Peat and Global Warming
OilPrice.com
By Andy Soos | Tue, 17 January 2012 19:39 | 1 Peat, or turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the ...

Tyrone Today
Local park makes Dungannon a tourism hotspot in North
Tyrone Today
Peatlands Country Park also scored highly with 10th place and a visitor total of 95000, a 6% rise from the previous year. The most popular country parks in Northern Ireland are Crawfordsburn Park, Botanic Gardens, Lagan Valley Regional Park, ...

The Star
Barnsley firm goes with the flow to grow
The Star
Its innovative devices will help experts assess the effectiveness of work to 'rewet' blanket bog, which is water-logged peatland. The flumes are up to six metres long and can measure flows of up to 3000 litres a second – fast enough to fill an Olympic ...

Financial Times
Scientists warn on damage to peatlands
Financial Times
By Andrew Bolger, Scotland Correspondent Scientists have warned that damaged UK peatlands – areas formed over thousands of years from dead and decaying plants in waterlogged conditions – are a significant source of carbon dioxide.

Grough
Trust condemns Holyrood's seasonal 'burying' of windfarm decision
Grough
... it approves almost 100 per cent of large onshore wind developments, regardless of the level of evidence and concern on issues such as the impact on natural environment areas including wild land, damage to peatlands, and level of public objection.

Academics pass on peat knowledge
Stirling Observer
SPECIALIST knowledge of Scotland's peat lands has been used to train almost 100 scientists in far-flung destinations like Malaysia and Borneo. The expertise, imparted during a week-long training stint in Asia, were shared by University of Stirling ...

VIDEO: Sheep producers shun Scottish forest drive
FarmersWeekly
"We don't want to see planting of trees on prime arable land, and planting on our carbon-rich peatlands will not be permitted," he said. "The result is that any drive for increased planting would be focused on our hills and uplands - the very same land ...

IEWY News
Further steps on Land Use Strategy
IEWY News
... Crime Taskforce in spring 2012The identification of pilot areas for peatland restorationRural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said:”Pressures on Scotland's natural resources require us to look at optimising how we use and manage these resources. ...

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Sustainable biomass for sustainable chemicals by Antje Grzesik*
AgraNet (subscription)
This rule is in place since December 2010. The Renewable Energy Directive (RED) requires the use of certified, sustainable biomass that should prevent companies from clearing forests, peatlands or grassland to grow biofuels for the EU market.

Yorkshire Post
Growers claim they are being penalised over peat
Yorkshire Post
Environmentalists have driven a campaign to preserve peat with the aim of banning its use in gardens. But there will be a big price to pay, as Chris Benfield reports. Politicians are on the way to creating another special disadvantage for British ...

Andrew Hopetoun: Shooting for the top prize of being the best
Scotsman (blog)
Peatlands store three billion tonnes of carbon, ten times the amount stored in the whole of the UK's forest biomass. It is only in the last few years that we have started to fully understand the crucial role played by Scotland's peatlands in locking up ...

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APP pulps trees from its own tiger sanctuary. How dumb is that?
Greenpeace UK (blog)
The report also highlights how APP suppliers are, contrary to Indonesian laws and regulations, clearing and draining deep peat, a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions. The draining, degradation, and burning of Indonesia's peatlands is one of ...

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Daily Mail
Peat and a VERY acid debate: Top gardener's comments rake up a rumpus in the ...
Daily Mail
This week, BOB FLOWERDEW shocked other gardeners by advocating the use of peat — even though the Government wants to ban it. Fellow expert STEFAN BUCZACKI couldn't be more horrified My goodness what a fuss — you'd think I'd suggested making it ...