“Be with the bog” – peatlands, policy and poetry at the IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference

Members of the RESPECT team recently braved Storm Amy to travel to the 2025 IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference in Derry/Londonderry. This year’s conference, which took place at the Ebrington Hotel from 30 September to 2 October, was delivered as part of Northern Ireland Environment Week. In this article, four members of the project team reflect on the event, Northern Ireland’s new peatland strategy, and why peatlands remain a contested space.

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