Peak District moorland restoration gets £1m funding boost

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The project aims to install 429 hectares of modified blanket bog in the Peak District

The project aims to create 429 hectares of modified blanket bogA moorland restoration scheme has been awarded more than £1m to improve the biodiversity of the Peak District's uplands.

Conservationists plan to install 429 hectares of modified blanket bog in the north of the national park.Funding has been allocated to the Moors for the Future Partnership through the government's National Peatland Grant Scheme, theIt aims to create the new bog to the north of the Peak District for the benefit of the nation's environmental recovery.

 

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You couldn’t dream this stuff up?!? Is this in lieu of the acres of housing development they want to plaster all over virgin green belt in matlock and surrounding areas!!! saveourwolds1 Dines4Dales

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