A significant international collaboration to support peatland restoration in the North Pennines National Landscape has been  announced by German environmental association, the Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU).

The €1.1 million investment will be used to restore valuable peatlands in the North Pennines, helping to promote better global climate regulation. Healthy peatlands are vital for biodiversity and provide multiple benefits for society, such as flood mitigation, improving water quality, and storing carbon.

The funding will support work on over 900 hectares of degraded peatland on five key North Pennines sites in Cumbria and County Durham. Restoring this land area, equivalent to over 1200 football pitches, will improve habitat quality and restore water levels of the blanket bog. All the land is in private ownership, and the project is being carried out in collaboration with landowners and land managers.

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