The BeadaMoss team are hard at work fulfilling partner orders as the peatland planting season gets underway. This time of year marks the ramp-up of restoration activity across the UK’s moorlands. One of our vans can carry around 90,000 individual BeadaHumok® sphagnum plugs, these are all bound for restoration projects across the Peaks.
Hopefully the weather holds and the contractors can make the most of the planting window!
We will be in Derry~Londonderry from 30th September to 2nd October for the 15th annual IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference. We’re looking forward to another chance to network with fellow attendees, visit peatland sites and participate in knowledge-sharing sessions. If you’re also attending, please do pop by our exhibition to say hello to us and our Sphagnum!
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is backing a University of Manchester research project through the Bezos Earth Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize. This will help the team to research the best way to restore Sphagnum moss in peatlands across the UK and within wider northern Europe.
We’re proud to be working with our partners at the University of Manchester, helping to supply different species of Sphagnum for their research.
The importance of this research project cannot be understated. Sphagnum moss is vital to the environment. It sequesters carbon, supports biodiversity and is a highly absorbent plant that can reduce the risk of flooding and drought. In short, Sphagnum moss is an eco-hero.
Further information on peatland restoration and our Sphagnum restoration work can be found below: https://beadamoss.com/peatland/
Find the full BBC article here – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8n1vgdqqo