Videos

How to monitor a moor...

How a Community Science monitoring site is set up.

MoorLIFE - bringing life back to the moors

How the MoorLIFE has worked to protect 2,500 hectares of Peak District and South Pennine Moorland.

Bumblebee sculpture - time lapse

A Community Science video showing the creation of a bumblebee sculpture in Chesterfield.

Conservation techniques - geotextiles

A MoorLIFE video showing why we cover steep sided slopes of bare peat with geotextile.

Conservation techniques - sphagnum moss

A MoorLIFE video showing why we spread Sphagnum moss on our sites across the Peak District and South Pennines.

Conservation techniques - gully blocking

A MoorLIFE video showing why we block erosion gullies and the types of dam we use across our programme of work.

Timelapse - coir logs

Coir logs are collected by helicopter and flown onto site for conservation work on the National Trust land on the Marsden Moor Estate.

Timelapse - heather bales

Heather bales are collected by helicopter and flown onto site for conservation work on the National Trust land on the Marsden Moor Estate

Conservation techniques - plug plants

A MoorLIFE video showing how and why we reintroduce native dwarf shrubs as part of our conservation works.

Timelapse - Hurricane Bertha

A time lapse camera on Bleaklow captured the rising water levels after the remains of hurricane Bertha passed over

Black Hill flyover

A flight over Black Hill in 2010 - in the first year of the MoorLIFE project

Bleaklow flyover

A flight over Bleaklow in 2010 - in the first year of the MoorLIFE project

Turley Holes flyover

A flight over Turley Holes in 2010 - in the first year of the MoorLIFE project

Rishworth common north flyover

A flight over Rishworth Common North in 2010 - in the first year of the MoorLIFE project

Rishworth & Blackstone Edge flyover

A flight over Rishworth Common South and Blackstone Edge in 2010 - in the first year of the MoorLIFE project

An introduction to the MoorLIFE Project

How we are bringing life back to 2,000 acres of Peak District and South Pennine moorland

Storm time lapse

Water levels rising on Bleaklow after a storm

Gully blocking time lapse

A day airlifting stone onto Kinder Scout to build dams

Earthrise on Bleaklow

Earthrise - Britain's bog rescue, broadcast on Al Jazeera English

Salter's Brook gully blocking

Flying over Salter's Brook to view the gully blocking works, part of the Natural England Conservation Plans Project. (Winter 2011)

Airlifting at Salter's Brook

Helicopters used to transport materials used to block eroded gullies at Salters Brook on Bleaklow, winter 2011.

Gullies are blocked to prevent further erosion and provide conditions for vegetation to grow back. This work is part of the Natural England Conservation Plans Project.

Airlifting heather cuttings onto Bleaklow

Airlifting heather cuttings from Glossop Low for spreading on eroded peat on Bleaklow, winter 2011. Part of the MoorLIFE project.

What is Moors for the Future?

Christopher Dean, Moors for the Future Project Manager answers the question 'What is the Moors for the Future project?'

Moorland restoration in progress

Spreading heather brash to encourage the regrowth of vegetation on bare peat to help restore areas of degraded moorland in the Peak District.

We are undertaking a monitoring programme to determine the success of the conservation works. As well as looking at how well vegetation establishes on the bare peat, we have started to monitor the hydrology and peat erosion / accumulation rates to see how these change following the works.