FARM & COUNTRY: pounds 2.5m project restores bog life.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 31, 2007 ;     227 words ......of carbon, they could help offset global warming. If all blanket bogs - a type of peat bog - were restored in England and Wales...capture 41,000 tonnes of carbon each year. However, damaged blanket bogs emit carbon as peat decomposes to release greenhouse gases...

Peatland revival may boost fight over car gases

Yorkshire Post;  September 1, 2008 ;     567 words ......policy between the 1950s and 1970s called for Yorkshire's blanket bogs to be intensively drained to produce more grazing land, ruining...drained and high in the Pennines drainage is intense, with most blanket bogs extensively gripped to improve grazing... Upland peak restoration...

Bid to bring back more blanket bogs.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 17, 2008 ;     416 words ......Sitka spruce, clearing rhododendron, reseeding with heather, grazing with Welsh mountain ponies and creating fire breaks. Blanket bogs - a type of peat bog - absorb and retain vast quantities of carbon and so, if in good condition, could slow down climate...

Search for answers on future of biosphere

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......river has a way to go back to its source on Dartmoor. Up here, among the blanket bogs and heather moor, the Taw rises and the biosphere begins. Dartmoor's blanket bogs could play an important role in locking up carbon and storing floodwaters...

The Scottish Amazon; LETTERS.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 29, 2006 ;     158 words ......hundreds of wind turbines. However, construction of wind farms is causing massive and irreparable damage to this country's blanket bogs. This results not only in the release of stored carbon, but also in the long-term release of greenhouse gases, as the peat...

Irish face fine over peat bogs.(Farming Life)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 28, 2002 ;     155 words ......has an important role to play in helping to ensure that Irish peatlands of conservation importance are properly safeguarded from...peat extraction. Hosting rare plants and animals, those Irish peatlands that are of conservation importance form a valuable component...

New status for moorland reserve.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  September 6, 2001 ;     148 words ......Wildlife Trusts, Dr David Bellamy, is to declare the new status on Whitelee Moor in Northumberland, in recognition of its rare blanket bogs and upland birds. The moor adjoins Kielderhead National Nature Reserve and the two sites together constitute an internationally...

Why the future is looking rock-solid.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 29, 2004 ;     160 words ......geological science. What makes the North Pennines special for Chris is the sense of wilderness and remoteness, the high moors, the blanket bogs, the wading birds, hay meadows, geology, the rich history. Put all that together and you have the North Pennines. A management...

Guide to promote Antrim's beauty.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  May 6, 2006 ;     268 words ......and historical parts of Northern Ireland is to be launched on Monday. Rocky coastlines, striking headlands, leafy glens and blanket bogs are among the natural landscapes of the Antrim Coast and Glens Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and these feature...

Half of bogland facing wipeout by 2075.

Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  September 1, 2008 ;     295 words ...ALMOST half of Irish peatlands could be lost forever by 2075 because of climate change, a high-powered committee of scientists has warned. And up to 20pc of native...

EU to fine us EUR21k a day.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  December 21, 2002 ;     100 words ......September 1999. If the court rules against Ireland, the EC will insist on the fines, which would apply from the day of the second judgement of the Court. The EU said Irish peatlands are of global importance and contain rare animals and plants.

Irish peat bogs rocked by great sheep explosion

The Independent - London;  July 31, 1995 ;     599 words ......heavy rain. South Connemara in Co Galway and parts of Mayo have been particularly badly hit. To preserve these areas, the Irish Peatlands Conservation Council has lodged a complaint with the European Commission, seeking legal moves against Dublin over its failure...

Reserve protects peatbog.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  August 17, 2007 ;     112 words ......landscape is covered. Rob Gibson SNP MSP for Highlands and Islands, who launched the reserve, said: As one of the biggest blanket bogs in the world it has a special importance as we tackle the global warming. The new reserve will be managed by RSPB who plan...

New peatlands awareness website

Belfast Telegraph;  February 9, 2004 ;     129 words ......exploitation has reduced the area once covered by peatlands to a level where only 8% of lowland raised bogs and 15% of upland blanket bogs remain. "Through the work of the environment and heritage service we will hopefully create greater awareness and work to...

Otis the barn owl teaches valuable lessons.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  May 23, 2007 ;     299 words ......and deterioration of quality. Key species include local favourites such as barn owls, red squirrels and otters as well as blanket bogs, whin grassland and heather moorland. Otis the barn owl had been engaged to come along with owner Sam Talbot to be introduced...