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CNPPA have won funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to explore bringing arts and sciences together to engage local communities with a changing landscape. The newly extended National Nature Reserve, Bolton Fell and Walton Moss (BFWM), was previously a peat extraction site and is under restoration to a healthy peatland carbon store. The project will improve understanding of climate change mitigation in the context of peatland restoration and carbon sequestration, adopting a multifaceted arts approach to community engagement. It will co-produce a science-informed, artist-inspired and community-led narrative of peatland restoration and its contribution to local and wider society.
This project aims to co-create a new narrative that kindles community pride in BFWM’s natural value and as a carbon store for climate mitigation, and to engender a legacy of engagement and care that values this peatland habitat, biodiversity and landscape.
Read more about the Moss of Many Layers on the project webpage and on the PLACE Collective blog, and view videos such as this one featuring Dr Simon Carr, Associate Professor in Geography, and Jack Brennand, Doctoral Researcher.
What's new? View the Moss of Many Layers Film by Juliett Klottrup. The film now features in the COP26 Virtual Peat Pavillion – visit it there and find out more about peat, mires, mosses and bogs across the world.
Partners: Natural England, PLACE Collective
Contact: Jack Brennand, Doctoral Researcher, University of Cumbria
Photo credit: Rob Fraser, PLACE Collective
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