Peatland ACTION - Project resources

Whether to help inform an application to our fund; improve your understanding and awareness of Peatland restoration, or simply to help us spread the word - we hope you will find our project resources helpful.

How do I learn about the techniques used in peatland restoration?

The Peatland ACTION team have put together a suite of technical restoration demonstration videos to help land managers and contractors learn about the techniques and their successful implementation on-the-ground.

View our Peatland ACTION playlist on our YouTube channel for a full list of techniques (ditch blocking, bunding, reprofiling, and surface smoothing).

Restoration guidance

• Peatland ACTION - technical compendium

• Peatland ACTION - installing peat and plastic dams

• Peatland Learning Module - Discover more about peatlands in general, including their restoration, in the 15 minutes it takes to complete the Peatland Learning Module.

Breeding birds Guidance

• Peatland Restoration and Breeding birds

Managing peatlands in the long term

• Guidance for land managers - grazing peatlands
• Burning (Muirburn code)

UAV Guidance

• Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Deployment and Data Guidance

Branding and social

• Peatland ACTION brand (including logos) and how to acknowledge support for your project.
• Follow us on Twitter @PeatlandACTION, and don't forget to tag @NatureScot and use our hashtag #PeatlandACTION especially if we've funded your peatland restoration project.

Training for contractors, consultants, agents, land managers and ECOWs

Peatland ACTION offers training in methods of peatland restoration techniques used throughout the UK. These two-day events - lead by the Crichton Carbon Centre - is a space for open, interactive discussions on peatland restoration. Interested? Register for future events today with the Crichton Carbon Centre.

Designed specifically for:

- Contractors looking to undertake peatland restoration projects;
- Consultants looking to undertake peatland restoration projects, peatland condition assessments and feasibility studies;
- Agents preparing peatland restoration projects;
- Land Managers and Factors; and
- Ecological Clerk of Works.

Events 

We will also let you know if we are attending shows or giving local presentations.

Help us to spread the Peatland ACTION message!

Data

Data collected as part of the Peatland ACTION programme are available as open source data (e.g. project locations, peat depth, and peatland condition). We have added some of the programme's peatland restoration data to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) to provide an interactive map based view of key datasets.

To ensure our restoration work is supported by robust evidence, a monitoring programme at a selection of Peatland ACTION sites is also ongoing (e.g. water table dynamics, water quality, vegetation surveys and drone flights with multispectral cameras).

• Peatland ACTION Open data 
• Peatland ACTION interactive map based view of some of the programme's peatland restoration data 

Download our informative posters

• Peatland Action: Project overview (Sept 2019)
• Peatland Action: Putting our data to work (Sept 2019)
• Peatland Action: Future-proofing Scotland's bogs
• Peatland Action: What are the benefits of peatlands and their role in future farming systems?

Download our leaflets

• Peatland carbon facts and figures
• Peatland ACTION Restoring Scotland's peatlands 

Case studies

We demonstrate links between peat condition and fisheries, grouse, carbon storage, drinking water catchments, wildlife, landscapes, human history and so much more. 

• Peatland ACTION case studies

Articles and blogs

• A day in the life of a Peatland ACTION Project Officer by Matthew Cook from the Crichton Carbon Centre.

Podcasts

Listen: In this Podcast we hear from Peatland ACTION Project Officers Ben Inglis-Grant and Sue White both of whom are based on Scottish islands.

Videos and interactives

• What are carbon 'sinks'?
  CNNi "Call to EARTH" series of video offers an overview of some of the worlds carbon sinks, including the peatlands of Scotland. Features Peatland ACTION Delivery Manager from NatureScot who explains what we are doing to restore this habitat as part of worldwide efforts to combat climate change. 
   
• Interactive on peatlands by CNNi explores the threats and pressures peatlands face; what's being done to restore and protect this habitat; and the benefits this brings. Look out for the 'rollover' image to discover some of the species peatlands support.