Project Summary
The Great North Bog (GNB) is a landscape-scale UK peatland restoration initiative supported by six leading partners: North Pennines National Landscape, Yorkshire Peat Partnership, Moors for the Future Partnership, Cumbria Peat Partnership, Northumberland Peat Partnership and Lancashire Peat Partnership. Together, the GNB coalition work to restore and protect nearly 7,000km2 of upland peatlands in and around the Protected Landscapes of northern England, representing the largest collaborative peatland conservation effort in the UK. The partners currently aim to use a range of public grant and private sector funding to restore the remaining degraded peatland within the area by 2040, estimated to be around 2,500km2. In 2023, the GNB partners began a collaborative buyer engagement project which sought to mobilise funding for peatland restoration by attracting and securing corporate buyers of carbon units under the IUCN UK Peatland Code.