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The Great North Bog is an ambitious, large-scale peatland restoration initiative being developed by the North Pennines National Landscape team, the Yorkshire Peat Partnership and the Moors for the Future Partnership, together with the Northumberland Peat Partnership, Cumbria Peat Partnership and Lancashire Peat Partnership.
The Great North Bog is a landscape-scale approach to upland peatland restoration and conservation across nearly 7000 square kilometres of peatland soils in the Protected Landscapes of northern England, storing 400million tonnes of carbon. The programme aims to develop a working partnership to deliver a 10-year funding, restoration and conservation plan to make a significant contribution to the UK’s climate and carbon sequestration targets.
Track record
In the last two decades, the partner organisations have restored about 1,100km2 (Yorkshire Peat Partnership – 323km2, North Pennines National Landscape team – 350km2, Moors for the Future Partnership – 454km2).
This is a great start but despite this massive effort it is still less than 20% of the total area and, with a climate and biodiversity emergency, the time is now to pool our skills to make a revolutionary change in the rate of restoration of England’s upland peatlands.
