Aitch Conservation Ltd

Our new machinery is in operation restoring the UK's peatlands. We've invested £125000 in new equipment that will help us to deliver more work restoring degraded blanket bog across the UK. As well as supporting a wide range of flora and fauna, the UKs peatlands store 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon and is the source of 70% of our drinking water so they are a hugely important habitat. Many of peatlands in the uk are in a degraded state and release carbon contributing to global wa

Aitch Conversation has successfully bid for South Pennine Leader Funding which will enable us to increase our capabilities in peatland restoration. The £130,000 grant will be invested in additional specialist equipment, including a specially converted low ground pressure excavator, an alpine tractor and a high tip flail collector which will give the team greater capabilities in peat damming, reprofiling and bunding, and vegetation management including heather harvesting, moli

We've had a busy season of flailing this year. We finished it with a job for the RSPB cutting molinia. The work was to introduce a wider variety of species and to cut large firebreaks in an area dominated by purple moor grass. This work will also greatly improve the grazing for the farmer. Using the BCS Volcan Dualsteer we were able to work in some very bad weather on very wet ground without causing damage. The dualsteer gives complete traction and control all of the time. Co

One of our latest projects has been installing living willow dams as an innovative method of natural flood management on the moors around Marsden and Saddleworth for National Trust. The species was selected not to be too vigorous as to pose a management issue in the future and bundled into faggots. These were then transported onto the moor using a low ground pressure vehicle. The faggots were dug in and staked into the position in the gullies with turves stacked up and pushed