The Flow Country has globally important peatland. But our peatland will be dug up…
We are delighted the Flow Country Partnership has set out how the World Heritage Site can develop sustainable tourism, but its work also illustrates the danger of destroying ancient peatland here in neighbouring Kinlochbervie.
Their vision is exactly the kind of joined-up thinking that offers benefits for small businesses, biodiversity and the landscape, while protecting the peatland that has been formed over thousands of years and is incredibly important for carbon sequestration. Scotland’s peatlands store significantly more carbon than all of the UK’s woodlands and forests combined.
Kinlochbervie is only a few miles to the west, where our peatland, formed over thousands of years is quietly working away, keeping carbon locked up underground and helping our planet. Just like the peat in the Flow Country it provides rare habitats and is home to a wealth of plants, insects, amphibians, mammals and birds.
Why would anyone dig up this peatland? Why would the Scottish government allow it to happen?
It makes no sense to permit a vast construction project on deep peat. It is not possible to ‘mitigate’ the impact of destroying peatland formed over thousands of years by planting a few trees elsewhere, which no doubt is what Zurich-based energy company Galileo will propose.
We are calling on the Scottish government to stop the Kinlochbervie windfarm and protect our peat!
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