• Three decades fighting for peatlands
    Wherever peat soils form - there is a conservation story - often of loss and damage, occasionally of restoration and hope. They form a fragile home for distinctive and often threatened wildlife and the...
  • Money trickles in for peatland restoration.
    Jim Densham, RSPB Scotland Would you call £1.7m a trickle of money? Probably not. Think what you might do with all that dosh. The Scottish Government has just announced this amount of new funding for...
  • Can you help us report burning on peatland?
    This month we’re launching a new app to allow members of the public to report incidents of burning on peatland. We need you to tell us when and where burning is taking place to support our call for Governments...
  • A Plan of Action for Peatlands?
    A Plan of Action for Peatlands? A letter published in the Scotsman this week was a real gem. Roy Turnbull, argued well that Scotland should do more to value its forests, peatlands and upland areas...
  • Fire and managed burning in the English uplands
    Guest post by Dr Pat Thompson, RSPB Senior Policy Officer (uplands) Record high temperatures in late February have led to countryside fires in a number of areas right across the UK. Fiery images have...