NEWS

Date: November 24, 2021

Are you potting up your Spring-flowering bulbs this Autumn? If so, please use peat-free compost. It’s an easy way you can join in the fight against the climate crisis, right in your garden. It’s important because going peat free means less damage to our precious peatlands. Drained, dried out and damaged peatlands – including peat […]

Date: November 19, 2021

The early winter murmuration has started, with thousands of birds swooping in the skies over Sinker’s Fields in the late afternoons. If you come out to Sinker’s Fields to watch the murmuration, please park at the Morris’ Bridge Car Park rather than on Moss Lane. If the car park is full and you have to […]

Date: November 18, 2021

Main photo credit: Alexander Sleigh NOTE: This post contains a link to an external website. Work is progressing at Sinker’s Fields wetland reserve, one of the best areas for wildfowl and wetland birds in North Shropshire. The works are being undertaken as part of the BogLIFE project to ensure that shallow surface water conditions can […]

Date: November 16, 2021

Note: This post contains links to external websites. Main photo credit: Stephen Barlow The Marches Mosses BogLIFE project has announced an Invitation to Tender for an Interpretation Specialist to work on projects relating to the Marches Mosses. We’re looking for an experienced contractor to deliver several small interpretive projects by June 2022. The successful candidate […]

Date: November 11, 2021

Main photo: The Marches Mosses at Dawn Credit: Stephen Barlow What internationally-significant Shropshire and Wales project has been tackling climate change 30 years ahead of COP26? The answer is the Marches Mosses in north Shropshire and northeast Wales. This huge peatland – 2,500 acres in total – is a significant store of carbon. Starting 30 […]