Projects to boost biodiversity and reduce carbon emissions across places including the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Dartmoor are being cancelled as the Government cuts funding for peatland restoration.
The UK’s peatlands hold more carbon that all the forests of England, Germany and France combined, but the majority of this land is in poor condition due to farming and peat extraction.
Over the last decade, the Government has spent over £60m restoring England’s degraded peatlands, however, the main source of funding, the Nature for Climate Fund, is coming to an end in March next year.
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Conservation charities across the country are warning they will have to wind down projects and lay off staff due to a funding “cliff edge”.
