NEWS
Shropshire Wildlife Trust Helps Students to Reconnect with Nature at the Marches Mosses
Date: November 11, 2020
In October, Shropshire Wildlife Trust led a total of nearly 200 children from schools in North Shropshire on a visit to the Marches Mosses, which includes Fenn’s, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses. The children, aged 8 to 11 from St. Peters School in Wem and Prestfelde School in Shrewsbury, put on their wellies and went out […]
Storytelling on the Mosses
Date: November 5, 2020
Note: Please be aware that links on this page take you to third party websites. Peatbogs are places of great beauty – and great mystery. We have joined forces with local storyteller, Jake Evans, to re-tell some of the tales of mystery associated with peat bogs. The story in this link is about Will o’the […]
Tony Juniper Visits Nature Recovery in Action at Marches Mosses BogLIFE Project
Date: November 3, 2020
Tony Juniper, Head of Natural England, had the opportunity to see nature recovery in action when he visited the BogLIFE project at Marches Mosses earlier this year. The BogLIFE team gave Tony a tour of the innovative £5 million project to revitalise Fenn’s, Whixall, Bettisfield, and Wem Mosses SAC and NNR, Britain’s third-largest lowland raised […]
Can You Spot the Mosses from Space?
Date: September 29, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, we posted an infrared photo of the Marches Mosses from the EU Sentinel satellite. That got us to thinking, so we emailed Chris Hadfield, the Commander of the International Space Station from 2012-2013, asking if he’d taken any photos of the Mosses. He was happy to help, and sent us […]
“So Large You Could See it From Space”
Date: September 16, 2020
Note: Please be aware that links on this page take you to third party websites. The Marches Mosses cover some 2,500 acres in North Shropshire and northeast Wales. It’s often been described as being “so large you could see it from space”. Turns out that it’s true, as the photo here shows. This is an […]
