The Climate Project: Sphagnum
What is The Climate Project: Sphagnum?
The BMC are working with Moors For the Future to raise money for their moorland restoration projects, and will be providing members with the opportunity to help plant Sphagnum in the Peak District.
Is this the most important plant on earth?
Peat moorlands cover 15% of the UK, but many have been dug up, drained or destroyed. The Peak District moorland landscape is now the most degraded in Europe and damaged peat can be a great carbon emitter. Moors for the Future was founded in 2003 to fight back. So far they’ve transformed over nearly 8,000 acres of peat moors across the Peak District and South Pennines.
Let’s plant moor
Thanks to our members and partners, we’ve raised over £70,000 for The Climate Project so far. This will restore more than 2,400 square meters of sphagnum on our Peak District moors. It costs £25 to plant one square metre of sphagnum moss and create a healthy moor.
Your donations will help:
- Actively fight climate change
- Reduce wildfire risk
- Reduce flooding risk
- Protect endangered wildlife
Donate to The Climate Project
On our wild moorlands grows an amazing plant called sphagnum. When sphagnum is growing healthily, this plant powerhouse takes as much carbon out of the atmosphere as a tropical rainforest.
Get Stuck In: Sphagnum Planting Days
Why are our moors so damaged?
Human activity and nature's consequences have been damaging the state of our moors for decades. As part of The Climate Project's Let's Plant Moor series, Moors For The Future Partnership Officer Alice Leary takes a look at how the degradation of the moors has a knock-on effect on the nature surrounding us and what's being done to prevent it.
Why are bogs so important for a healthy planet?
Our peatlands store more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined and yet here on our doorstep, they're in a state of degradation. As part of The Climate Project's Let's Plant Moor series, Moors For The Future Partnership Officer Alice Leary takes a look at the knock-on effect on the nature surrounding us and what's being done to prevent it.
The Climate Project: Sphagnum is a campaign by the BMC's Access and Conservation Trust. Working alongside Moors For The Future. It's supported by Cotswold Outdoor and Snow+Rock.
