{"id":2230151,"date":"2026-10-31T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2230151"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:58:30","slug":"skiddaw-forest-peatland-being-restored-in-500000-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2230151","title":{"rendered":"Skiddaw Forest peatland being restored in \u00a3500,000 project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"CumbriaCumbria Wildlife Trust<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Skiddaw Forest scheme is funded by a \u00a3520,000 grant<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Work has started on a project to restore 435 hectares (1,077 acres) of damaged peatland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust will carry out the work in Skiddaw Forest where it will also repair a 6km (3.7-mile) boundary fence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The forest is home to one of the largest continuous areas of blanket bog in the Lake District and acts as a huge carbon store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Peatland team manager for the trust Susie Webb said: “Once improved, the peatlands will also slow the flow of water off the fells, which will help protect local communities downstream from flooding and will benefit a huge variety of wildlife.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The project is expected to take between three and four months but public access to Skiddaw Forest won’t be affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Webb said: “We expect to see an increase in specialist plants such as sundews and sphagnum mosses and greater numbers of dragonflies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Birds such as snipe, which live on wet grassland, marshes and moorlands, will benefit from the rewetted ground.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Follow BBC Cumbria on <\/i>X<\/i>, <\/i>Facebook<\/i>, <\/i>Nextdoor<\/i> and <\/i>Instagram<\/i> and listen to <\/i>Radio Cumbria on BBC Sounds.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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