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🎬 Summer BogFilmFest 2025: Experience the Magic of Peatlands

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 🎬 📍 Across Northern England | iCASP, WaterLANDS and Great North Bog Partners A Bog Film Festival is being held across the north of England to encourage people to discover why peatlands matter and learn about the crucial work being undertaken to restore them. Three exciting events are being held in the lead-up to International … Read more

Podcast: Exploring Restoration with WaterLANDS – Featuring Julia Martin-Ortega and Josh Cohen

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🎧 Podcast: Exploring Restoration with WaterLANDS The second episode of Exploring Restoration with WaterLANDS features Prof. Julia Martin-Ortega, an ecological economist, and Dr. Joshua Cohen, an environmental anthropologist at the University of Leeds. Recorded during the WaterLANDS General Assembly in Leeds, the researchers discuss the risks of nature commodification and what implications this might have … Read more

A new guide to help landowners in the Skell Valley get funding for natural flood management

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A manual to help landowners and farmers introduce the best possible natural flood management measures on their land and get an appropriate level of funding for doing so has just been published. It has been developed as part of a large-scale conservation project based around the River Skell, to encourage landowners to implement nature based … Read more

Freshwater Quality News – spring 25

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Update from Freshwater Quality Champion Team Welcome to the Freshwater Quality Programme spring 2025 newsletter, which has been produced by the Champion team based in water@leeds, University of Leeds. The newsletter provides updates from the Champion team and the five research projects within the programme, which each focus on different aspects of water quality. You can subscribe to receive the … Read more

Training rolled out to help improve the mental health of people at high risk of flooding

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Around 100 local authority employees are being trained in a new project to help improve the mental well-being of people whose properties have flooded or at are risk of flooding. The Psychological First Aid Training will start this month and be delivered by specialist trainers Purple Dog to a diverse range of front-line staff including … Read more

Meet Kathryn Moyes – helping to use green finance to restore the Great North Bog

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I am the Graduate Trainee in Green Finance and Peatland Restoration within WaterLANDS UK. My role is to help build capacity and mobilise the use of green finance to support and deliver peatland restoration across the Great North Bog. This involves sourcing and engaging private sector finance, raising the profile of peatland restoration work delivered … Read more

What have our WaterLANDSUK artists been up to?

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Artists at Fleet Moss WaterLANDS UK artists in residence Laura Harrington and Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald) gave a presentation at a two day conference hosted in the New Forest’s tree house venue. The Conference, held in September 24, was called ‘The Long View: Art, a sense of place, belonging and reciprocity in relation to landscape’ and focused … Read more

WaterLANDS Newsletters

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News from WaterLANDS UK Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness In the UK, the WaterLANDS team has been working with the Great North Bog – a coalition of six delivery partnerships  –  to support blanket bog restoration at scale across the whole of the north of England. This includes support around monitoring, planning, finance, citizen science, community … Read more

Cool iCASP News – Winter 25

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Welcome to the winter edition of our news bulletin. It features: Our plans for Confluence 2025 A £30,000 successful bid for the Digital Smart Flood Warning System for Surface Water More popular freshwater quality webinars A call for sponsors for the NFM Community of Practice Peatland restoration work with the #GreatNorthBog coalition as part of … Read more