Peatland Connections is a new and exciting Crichton Carbon Centre project that will take you on a journey to re-discover our diverse + unique Scottish peatlands
Dumfries and Galloway
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blog no.3 by textile #artist Morag Macpherson about her residency with @CarbonCentre is now live on the Peatland Connections blog site.
Clearance and Breathe...
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We still have a few places left for this Sunday's Water Cycle up the Upper Blackwater of Dee to collect water samples as part of our water quality research project. Picnic lunch included. eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-cyc…
THIS Sunday 13th our last #citizenscience Water Cycle event to gather #waterquality data along the Upper Blackwater of Dee.
A real adventure PLUS lunch included PLUS you'll be contributing to scientific research. Book your free place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-cyc…
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The Last Water Quality Citizen Science Cycle is on Sunday 13th Aug. Book your free place to join us cycling up the Upper Blackwater of Dee taking water samples as we go
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Check out @peat_cultures reflections of attending the World Soil Science Congress (Glasgow).
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yep, tiny superheroe
Mosses make up most of the diversity in northern regions and often more than 50% of ecosystem productivity and carbon uptake from the atmosphere. Tiny superheroes. Where are my moss lovers?
ALT Image of Polytrichum moss sporophytes with some white lichen scattered underneath.
ALT Image of red Sphagnum stems with a few yellow to greenish mosses in the stand.
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At 3 sites in Galloway - where sitka should't be - folk turned up clad in bright colours to pluck them out.
Some brilliant photos from the Spruce Plucking World Championship events on Saturday - a chance to raise the topic of natural re-gen of spruce in unhelpful places #WorldChampionships #FantasticForestFestival
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Join in and Feel the Burn with "Water Cycle: Citizen Science on Wheels" eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-cyc… @Eventbrite
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whoops. A day late. Happy World Wetlands day for yesterday!!! And happy wetlands throughout 2023!
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amazing pictures of peat restoration some 20 years after the work was completed. @fermanaghomagh @cuilcaghlakes! @UlsterWildlife
How amazing are these peat & timber dams engulfed by sphagnum after 20+ yrs! Pretty leading edge stuff in 1999 by @fermanaghomagh @cuilcaghlakes! @UlsterWildlife are identifying new/replacement dams & doing a lessons learned review to inform future peatland restoration techniques
ALT Series of peat dams in a drain covered in sphagnum
ALT A timber dam holding back lots of water covered in sphagnum
could that be you, out on a peatland, in a digger? peatland restoration job opportunities...
📢We're hiring! Interested in #VoluntaryCarbonMarkets, #NaturalCapital and increasing private finance for #PeatlandRestoration? Applications have opened for a new #PeatlandCode Development Manager.
Full job description and application: wildlifetrusts.org/jobs/deve…
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on the run up to United Nations #WorldSoilDay (5th Dec), reflecting on the #WSCC22
@CarbonCentre @gallowayglens @PropogatePlants
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beautiful
There is more carbon stored in Sphagnum moss than any other plant genus on the planet. It's also beautiful.
ALT Photograph of a carpet of Sphagnum moss showing mostly red colored mosses with a few green mosses scattered throughout.
ALT Photograph of a person holding up a tube of Sphagnum peat with live moss at the surface and more decomposed biomass beneath it.
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Cracking our way through conifer plantation then
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Boggy ground, sodden.
#Bogbean and #sphagnum delight.
- A poem from our @peatconnections officer for #SphagnumMonday!
Read our latest blog by Jack Barton describing a marvellous morning of moths and hidden sounds peatlandconnections.com/post…
@CarbonCentre @gallowayglens @ScotWildlife @savebutterflies
Read our latest blog by Jack Barton describing a marvellous morning of moths and hidden sounds peatlandconnections.com/post… @CarbonCentre @gallowayglens @ScotWildlife @savebutterflies
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have your say. our voices matter.
Too many people believe that nobody listens to the likes of them. Too many therefore say nothing ... and so are not heard. New land reform legislation is now taking shape that will affect us all. This consultation is for real. Please be a part of it. landcommission.gov.scot/land…
tomorrow! team peat will be next to the Loch in Castle Douglas with the Vikings! @CarbonCentre @gallowayglens
This Sunday will be a fantastic day out - come along and see us and our @peatconnections project. We have something really interesting planned around our wonderful #peat and its links with #archaeology... 👀🤫
#dumfriesandgalloway #events #southwestscotland
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The last of the sundews peeping through the undergrowth. They will soon retire, to appear again next Summer @forum_wetlands @seewilkie @PeatlandsG @NatureRTE @CurrachBooks @peatconnections
