Acres of bright, purple heather have started to bloom on moorland across the Peak District. The moorland usually blazes into colour from August to October every year. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust ...

The Peak District stretches across Derbyshire ... walking routes are surrounded by corridors of chestnut-coloured ferns and heather. But make sure to bring a coat as it gets quite windy up ...

A helicopter delivering materials to help restore peatlands on Kinder Scout Work to restore moorland at the Peak ... encourages a mix of moorland plants like heather, bilberry, and cotton grass ...

The Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative ... said it had undertaken work including cutting heather to encourage a more diverse range of moorland plants including sphagnum moss, bilberry and ...

Recent studies suggest there are about 2,500 of the creatures in the Peak District which ... too warm and reducing food sources, such as heather. Reduced snow coverings mean the hares may not ...

hopped contentedly around the Staffordshire moorlands in the south-western part of the Peak District National Park, munching heather and sporadically breeding. If you want to place their home ...

helping to form a picture of past habitats and reconstruct likely climatic conditions far beyond our most recent understanding of the Peak District. With plants and fungi generally favouring ...

The PEF is an environmental co-operative of farmers and moorland managers who have come together to achieve ambitious outcomes on a landscape scale in the Dark Peak and Southwest Peak. It was set ...

In some areas of the Peak District, magnificent birds such as goshawks ... grouse shooting undoubtedly saved a significant amount of heather moorland from post-war tree-planting and ...

Conservationists have called for increased awareness after a recent fire devastated two square kilometres of wildlife habitats in the Peak District ... of other moorland plant species.