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Help save one of Europe's largest carbon stores

The North Pennines team is internationally recognised as a leader in the field of peatland restoration.

Home to some of the rarest peatland habitat in the world, and a crucial carbon store, the team has been hard at work recovering this resource for almost 20 years.

It takes years of building knowledge, trust, and experience to handle such a complex process - complete with sophisticated surveying and monitoring techniques.

But the team need your help.

A snowy view of Tynehead Fell following some restoration works in 2019.

National and international significance

The United Kingdom has about 12% of Europe’s peatlands and 13% of the that is internationally rare: the blanket bog.

The North Pennines has almost 30% of England’s blanket bog and contains the largest area of contiguous bog in England.

At over 100,000 ha, the North Pennines National Landscape peatland complex is one the largest bogs and carbon stores in Europe.

Almost 10,000 km of drains have been cut into these peatlands over the last 60 years in an attempt to make them more agriculturally productive. This drainage has left the peat bog damaged and in a deteriorating condition, emitting carbon rather than sequestering it.

North Pennines peatlands provide numerous ecosystem services including carbon storage and sequestration, water resources, wildlife habitat and flood amelioration. It is important, therefore, to restore this habitat and increase the resilience of peatlands against an unpredictable climate future.