Date: 30th September – 2nd October 2025

Time: See website for details

Location: Ebrington Hotel, Derry~Londonderry BT47 6FA

Our annual conference series provides a valuable convening function for the UK peatland community to share knowledge, enthusiasm and experience and seek solutions to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. We bring together everyone with an interest in these unique and precious habitats, from land managers, policy makers and businesses to restoration practitioners, creatives and scientists.

Our 2025 conference is being delivered as part of Northern Ireland Environment Link annual Environment Week, which has a peatland focus this year. This is an exciting time for peatlands in Northern Ireland, with progress now being made towards a national Peatland Strategy, the first Peatland Code projects now registered, and restoration starting to upscale.

The conference takes us to the Ebrington Hotel in the old walled city of Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland. In our venue on the banks of the River Foyle and in visits to diverse peatlands across the region, we’ll be exploring the theme ‘Water Connections: from Source to Sea’. We’ll explore the deep cultural associations and sense of identity connected to peatlands in Northern Ireland, and policy drivers reflecting changing attitudes to peatland management. We’ll also examine the importance of water in these landscapes and the role of peatlands at catchment scale as a nature-based solution.

To make our conferences as inclusive and accessible as we can, we’re using a hybrid format, with remote attendance available for our plenary sessions on 30th September.