For Peat’s Sake.

Peak District Moorland Group

This is a hugely important film to watch, for anybody who appreciates the importance of our peat moorlands in our modern times - produced by the Scottish Moorland Groups and the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, it has references to work carried out in the Peak District by worldwide experts (not just fresh faced academics, but personnel that have been on the proverbial coalface of landscape scale wildfires).

For any naysayers on the need of keeping a variety of “tools in the toolbox” for practitioners, we are now seeing modern science backing up traditional management practices, such as prescribed burning and whilst heather cutting of moorland vegetation, might have its place as a management tool in certain locations, it also has negatives.

For the very vocal individuals and organisations that spew uneducated outrage when they report a low intensity prescribed burn to their local paper - sit back and watch this film, we appreciate that sometimes it’s difficult to admit that preconceived ideas might actually be flawed - but if your love is sustainable functioning moorlands, you can see why we are so passionate about our “moorland office”, which might also be your sanctuary and retreat?

Click here to watch ‘For Peat’s Sake’ on YouTube.