Conservationists turn to glue to make seeds stick on windy Yorkshire moor

Project has been planting grass to help restore vital peatland but found some of it was not taking

Green sludge pours out of thick hosepipes wielded by two Welshmen in a bog in the north of England. It is not many people’s vision of cutting-edge technology.

But although the goop splattering messily on to bare patches of moorland may not look much, it is the first of its kind – a special type of glue designed to help restore vital peatland, which has been disappearing at rapid rates.