Kinder project aims to reduce flood risk

They are the source of drinking water for millions of inhabitants of northern towns and cities, but the Peak District moors can also deliver devastating floods when torrential rain pours off the peat uplands.

Campaigners urge rethink on national park centre closure

Outdoor campaigners are rallying to save a national park learning centre threatened with closure. Losehill Hall in the Peak District could be shut ...

Dales walkers get improved weather forecast service

Walkers and climbers in the Yorkshire Dales now have an improved weather forecast service. The independent Mountain Weather Information Service has...

Students help Peak moorland climate-change research

School students joined national park staff to gather research evidence on climate change in the Peak District.

Just the ticket: cut-price buses for right-to-roam walkers

An authority is offering cheap bus tickets to celebrate the 60th anniversary the setting up of Britain’s national parks.

Peak projects up for anniversary cash

Walkers and climbers have the chance to have their say on which Peak District project will get a £5,000 boost.

What's that Skip? Struth, a moorland marsupial!

Moorland walkers may get a surprise after separate sightings of a rare example of wildlife. Wallabies have been spotted in both the South Pennines ...

Euro-cash means green light for moors restoration

A massive project to regenerate some of the country’s most important moorland will go ahead after the European Union pledged £5½m to safeguard stretches of upland in the Peak District and South Pennines.

Walks will mark late Natural England head's birth date

A series of walks will take place in the autumn in memory of Natural England’s first head, who died of cancer, aged 59, earlier this year.