The proposals which are out for public consultation could mean that an extra 146,000 hectares (ha) of upland peat areas will be protected from burning, leading to 368,000 ha in total to be protected.

Healthy peatlands can help tackle climate change, reduce flood risk, improve water quality and support rare wildlife.

Mary Creagh described the peatlands are the UK’s Amazon rainforest ... Special Scientific Interest that are also Special Areas of Conservation and/or Special Protection Areas to Less Favoured ...

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The UK government has revealed new plans to improve the protection of peatlands, focusing on banning heather burning on ...

Likewise Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve and Peatlands. A total of 20 environmental recovery projects will be supported to deliver marine conservation, research into threatened species ...

At the Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation, we seek to understand ... lochs, forests and peatlands. In particular, our research team has expertise in Population Genetics ...

First Nations Are On the Cusp of a Big Marine Conservation Win in Canada—and They Have Even ... Can they conserve the coastline and carbon-storing peatlands, too?

Australia protects its native forests by building reserves, integrating conservation and sustainable use at the ... floodplains, forested peatlands and seasonally flooded forests. An example of a ...