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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

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

Risks of nature commodification in the UK’s Green Finance Strategy: a document analysis

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Ruth Bookbinder, Julia Martin-Ortega, Joshua Cohen – University of Leeds Aims and approach This report marks an initial step in our efforts to understand how risks in nature commodification are captured in green finance policy in the UK. It presents an analysis based on 19 policy and advisory documents identified from a public presentation of … Read more

A magical new perspective on peatlands

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Pictured at Malham Tarn This summer our UK Artists in residence for WaterLANDS,  Laura Harrington and Feral Practice, who are working with iCASP and partners, at the Great North Bog Action Site, spent a very wet and soggy day at Tennant’s Gill, near Malham Tarn in Yorkshire. They were carrying out explorative fieldwork with Professor of Aquatic Science Lee Brown, University … Read more

Anyone for a slice of Blanket Bog cake?

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Antony (pictured) with his blanket bog cake More than a million tonnes of carbon are stored in Marsden Moor, in West Yorkshire – and the peatlands can  hold the equivalent annual emissions released by one million cars. These were findings of a four year study by Dr Antony Blundell, Senior Researcher and Martin Gilpin, Senior … Read more

Filming peatlands in the Great North Bog

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Pictured: Andrew Walker from Yorkshire Water being filmed by Dan Waters from Adarak at Peat Moss A group of peatland enthusiasts took time out from their working day to join us making a video about vital restoration work which has transformed Fleet Moss and Nethergill. We were lucky as it was a beautiful sunny day … Read more

Deliberative Workshop in Northumberland

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A successful two-day event was held at Moss Peteral, a working farm in Northumberland, in May to discuss what is important to land managers in the landscapes they manage and possibilities for peatland restoration. They were hosted by Northumberland Peat Partnership, supported by members of the WaterLANDSUK team – Professor Julia Martin-Ortega, academic lead and … Read more

How art and science can progress urgent peatland conversations – reflections by WaterLANDSUK engagement lead Josh Cohen

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Pictured: Listening event – photo by Laura Harrington Last weekend (Saturday 17 February) Laura Harrington took part in a peat coring and ‘listening walk’ event with Durham Wildlife Trust, site lead Rebecca Clarke, sound artist Tim Shaw, Dr Antony Blundell from University of Leeds and Josh Cohen at St Cuthbert’s Moor Nature Reserve in Durham. … Read more