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🕷🎃It’s a story of treat rather than trick this #Halloween in the North Pennines. At Fiends Fell you might expect ghouls or demons, but instead you’ll find a much more friendly team carrying out #peatlandrestoration work to benefit people and nature. #northpenninesnationallandscape #peatlandsmatter
Peat dam with pool of water on Fiends Fell in the North Pennines National Landscape. Fell in the background. Stone dams blocking a drainage channel on a peatland on Fiends Fell in North Pennines National Landscape. Coir roll with pool of water blocking a drainage channel on Fiends Fell in North Pennines National Landscape. Digger re-profiling an edge on Fiends Fell in North Pennines National Landscape.
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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📣 Congratulations to Jan and Brian, winners of the 2025 Pendlebury Award.

For the first time, this prestigious conservation award has been jointly won by two people who have been recognised for their contributions to the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape and #UNESCOGlobalGeopark

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Jan, 2025 Pendlebury Award winner, holding the award. Standing between stone arched entranceway. Jan, 2025 Pendlebury Award winner, holding the award. Standing between stone arched entranceway.
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Calling all farmers and land managers. 🚜🌱🐑

➡️ Through the #FarminginProtectedLandscapes programme, apply for funding to carry out projects in the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape . Your project could support nature recovery, or help people to enjoy the landscape.

Find out more: buff.ly/8bgNYkZ
Colourful meadow and green fields in the North Pennines. White farm house on the right. A few trees. Bright blue sky.
August 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Job opportunity - Community Engagement Assistant
Join our busy team helping to deliver a varied and inspiring engagement, education and community event programme across the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape as part of the Land of Lead and Silver project.
Visit - buff.ly/itxxnsg
#northpennines #jobs
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Glorious #WaskerleyWay today: curlew, lapwing, skylarks & meadow pipit displaying; chiffchaff & willow warbler calling; peacock, small tortoiseshell, green-veined & large white butterflies; a pair of mating toads & a BADGER sneaking into its sett!!
#NorthPenninesNationalLandscape #SustransC2C
April 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Bowlees Visitor Centre will be open today - Mothers' Day - from 10am to 4pm. Come and explore waterfalls, walks and wildlife around Bowlees and enjoy tean and cake at the Falls Café.
#enjoytheoutdoors #Teesdale #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape
March 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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➡Installing potato starch lattices on bare peat. #peatlandsmatter #peatlandrestoration #northpennines #northpenninesnationallandscape
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Our #HeritageTreasures are the important species in the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape. We're celebrating adders, with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, sharing why these creatures are special and need to be protected northpennines.org.uk/what_we_do/n... #HeritageTreasuresDay
January 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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@theguardian.com Country Diarist Susie White sharing the joys of our #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape #darkskies today www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Country diary: The northern lights have reached us, down in the valley | Susie White
Allendale, Northumberland: This part of Britain is blessed with many dark sky discovery sites, but the aurora is so intense tonight I only have to step outside my door to see it
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January 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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At the end of the year we look back on 2024 and ahead to ambitions for nature, people & climate, focusing on the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape team's two clear priorities: nature recovery, and helping people to discover, enjoy and understand this landscape. northpennines.org.uk/review-of-20...
An atmospheric photograph over the North Pennines, showing sunlight shining on the fells towards Cow Green reservoir An autumnal image taken on a fungi walk, showing a child in yellow wellington boots and a member of the North Pennines team holding samples of fungi they have collected. There are leaves on the ground. A group of conservationists from the Eurosite annual meeting walk across the peatlands of the North Pennines to see restoration work in progress. There are blue skies and clouds over the distant hills. Black and white Belted Galloway cattle on a green North Pennines hillside with blue sky above. There are rushes in the foreground.
December 31, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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For #WorldSoilDay 2024 we are sharing news of how funding from Defra’s Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme is helping a farmer in the
#NorthPenninesNationalLandscape
to improve soil structure by enhancing rotational grazing practices on his land. bit.ly/3Worldsoilday24
#soil #farming #waders
December 5, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Happy #GISday2024 - we're celebrating Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, a mapping & data analysis technology which we use for #peatlandrestoration. Discover how we use GIS & ‘digital twins’ to create restoration plans: bit.ly/3CEbFRd

#GIS #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape #arcgis
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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It's our first day on #BlueSky! We're saying #ThanksToYou to #NationalLottery players. Thanks to you we've been able to take action for nature and heritage in the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape and UNESCO #GlobalGeopark, and help people to connect with and enjoy our landscape. 1/4
November 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM