Sandstone Press teams up with RSPB to promote peatlands

Sandstone Press has launched a partnership with the RSPB to conserve and restore peatland habitats. 

The news comes ahead of the publication of The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland: A Traveller’s Guide by Clifton Bain, director of the IUCN UK Peatlands Programme, a project which promotes peatland restoration in the UK. The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings by the wildlife artist Darren Rees. 

Sandstone will donate 15% of the RRP from each copy of The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland sold through its online shop and direct to readers to promotional events. 

M.d. Robert Davidson said: “I am delighted that the conservation partnership that has formed around Clifton Bain’s The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland has been widened to provide this contribution to the RSPB’s peatlands restoration project. Nothing is more important in the contemporary world, or more pressing, than the climate crisis. Consistently underestimated in this regard is the significance of peatlands throughout the world, and their retention of greenhouse gases. We must each address that part of the crisis that is on our doorstep.” 

Duncan Orr-Ewing, head of species and land management at RSPB Scotland, revealed she hopes the publication “will help raise awareness of the importance of peatland and the ongoing efforts to save these wonderful habitats”. She added: “Donations from Sandstone Press will be used to support the RSPB’s peatland restoration efforts in our RSPB Scotland Forsinard Flows nature reserve, part of the Flow County. Restoring these bogs will not only help fight the climate crisis, they are also vital habitats for some of the UKs most precious wildlife such as hen harriers, greenshank and dragonflies.”