Justine Reid
Justine Read (Reid) is Communications Officer for the South West Peatland Partnership, employed by South West Water, leading comms for peatland restoration across Cornwall, Dartmoor and Exmoor.
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Sep 30, 2026
Ellen WilesHOST
To learn more about that, I've come to a peatland restoration site on Exmoor to speak with Justine Read, who's the communications officer for the South West Peatland Partnership.
Justine ReadGUEST
We're here on Exmoor at Aldermans Barrow Allotment, which is a National Trust owned site, part of the Honeycutt National Trust estate.
Justine ReadGUEST
Where we're standing, we're quite high up and there's ditches and culverts put into the landscape from hundreds of years ago.
Justine ReadGUEST
to block up these drainage features and help raise and stabilise the water table.
Justine ReadGUEST
And that's really important to help keep the carbon in the peat, slow down the flow of water and encourage a greater diversity of wildlife in the landscape.
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Ellen WilesHOST
Justine Read from the South West Peatland Partnership was clear that the time to act on peatland restoration and enable it to be rolled out as widely as possible is now.