The Peak district is renowned for its beauty. With majestic rivers, striking dales, moors, wooded valleys and uplands, the Peak District should be teeming with wildlife, abundant with wild animals and plants. But it is not. Wildlife is dying out. Nature is under threat.
Wild Peak will be a partnership of local landowners, community groups, businesses and organisations; local people who believe in a Peak District fit for the future; a land restored so that Golden Eagles and Ospreys once again soar overhead, Black Grouse and Hen Harriers are back where they belong amidst abundant wildflower meadows rich in insect life and healthy blanket bogs; where Pine Martens, Adders and Red Squirrels are thriving in native woodlands that are expanding and Beavers are restoring and creating new wetlands.
The main aims of Wild Peak are:
Get Involved
Join Wild Peak to make a place that is wilder, richer, healthier and ensures a thriving Peak District for generations to come. Wild Peak partners with local landowners, helping with advice on sustainable farming, planting woodlands, creating wetlands, connecting wild pieces of land together and the reintroduction of species. The project is being led by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.
Wild Peak is also working with another site called 'Wild Thornhill'.
This 30 hectare area of former farmland is a unique site, rare within The Peak District National Park for its unmanaged Wildness. It is currently home to a fantastic array of wild wood land, scrub, beautiful wild flower meadows. The Wild Peak Project is looking to continue rewilding the site, with the use of low numbers of herbivores including cattle to mimic natural processes and continue to allow a mosaic of habitats to thrive.
If you would like to donate to the wild peak project, you can find out more information here: https://www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/rewild