The plant that formed the blanket bogs of the Peak District is being reintroduced on a scale never seen before in the UK, by the team at the Moors for the Future Partnership.
The £1.25 million investment is funded from various sources including Natural England and the EU LIFE programme through the partnership’s MoorLIFE 2020 project.
The team will work to reintroduce 1.7 million plug plants and clumps of Sphagnum moss across the Peak District National Park and South Pennines over the next four years.
Ground-breaking research has already led to the development of new ways to introduce Sphagnum moss in the form of beads, slime and plug plants with on-going monitoring to assess effectiveness. A new cutter to help harvest Sphagnum from donor sites where the moss is still plentiful is currently being developed.
