HELPING MOTHER NATURE

The National Trust's mission continues thanks to your help

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National Trust

UK nature is in trouble, but we can help to restore it if we work together.

As part of the National Trust's new 25-year strategy, the conservation charity has committed to working with partners on a landscape scale to help restore nature, which includes reviving ailing rivers, protecting peatlands, and nurturing rare species. Nature recovery projects are already underway, enabling landscapes, plants and animals to flourish.

Healthy Peak District peatlands

Healthy peatlands are hugely important to the environment, acting as a carbon store, wildlife-rich habitat and flood controller.

Peat must remain wet to be healthy and due to drainage, overgrazing and extraction, some peatlands have been damaged. In the Peak District, work is taking place to restore, conserve and manage this vital landscape. Thousands of small dams have been built high on moorlands, slowing the flow of water and trapping peat sediment. Plugs of Sphagnum Moss have also been planted (over 800,000 on Kinder Scout alone), which act as speedbumps for rainfall, helping to create wet conditions. To transport materials to hard-to-reach locations like Kinder Scout, helicopter lifts were used. As of March 2025, 1,235 acres of peatlands have been restored on Kinder Scout, and further work is taking place across land in the wider Peak District.

10,000 trees planted at Calke Abbey

The National Trust is aiming to plant and establish 20 million trees by 2030 to combat climate change and enhance biodiversity. At Calke Abbey, staff and volunteers have established a new area of woodland through the planting of 10,000 trees.