Tracking the Colour of Peatlands

The Tracking the Colour of Peatland project uses community science to collect photographs of wetlands and peatlands over the course of the year from publicly accessible sites.

Any time someone visits a site, they can take a fixed-point photograph of the wetland using one of the specially designed phone cradles and send the photograph over. This allows us to build up a picture of how these wetlands change over the course of the year with regards to their colour.

We have 22 sites in the project currently. You can access the photographs using the map below:

Tracking the Colour of Peatlands data summary

Project funding:
Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth

Project partners:
RSPB Scotland, UK
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Government of New Brunswick’s Department of Natural Resources, Canada
The National Parks & Wildlife Service, Killarney National Park, Ireland
Store Mosse National Park, County Administrative Board, Länsstyrelsen i Jönköpings län, Sweden
Lauhanvuori – Hämeenkangas UNESCO Global Geopark and Metsähallitus National Parks, Finland
Parc Naturel régional des Volcans d’Auvergne, France
Natural Resources Wales
Sue White - Peatland Action, Scotland
NatureScot