The Butterfly of the Bogs
Read this NatureScot post (7 June 2024) to discover more about a beautiful butterfly that can only live on peatlands – and healthy peatlands at that. If we let our peatlands dry out, the large heath butterfly will have nowhere to live and breed – and that would be very [...]
How Scotland’s peatlands support our adders
Discover some fascinating information about adders and how our peatland areas support them in this Scotland’s Nature post (3 May 2024).
Healthy peatlands – nature’s firewall
This post in Scotland’s Nature (19 April 2024) shares the surprising fact that the months between March and June are the most likely to see our hills, forests and moors ablaze than any other time of the year. It shares some useful guidelines for wildfire prevention.
Women in STEM – Peatland ACTION leads the way
NatureScot (8 March 2024) celebrated International Women’s Day with some good news! This post shares the fact that 50% of the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) focussed jobs at NatureScot Peatland ACTION are currently held by women. This bucks the UK statistics, where currently less than 30% of these kinds [...]
New film spotlights the benefits of healthy peatlands
A new Peatland ACTION film has just been released that highlights the landscape-scale benefits of peatland restoration across Ben Wyvis and the River Peffrey. This is one of a suite of Peatland ACTION case studies that focus on landowners, managers, and contractors explaining in their own words why they think peatland [...]
Bringing Peatland ACTION to life
This blog post on Scotland’s Nature (9 February 2024) shares the reasons peatland restoration is so important, the benefits that it can bring, and the dedication of the landowners, managers, Peatland ACTION project officers, surveyors and contractors who make it all happen. Checkout 4 new cases studies in bogs and [...]
Rise of the Machines for Peatland Restoration
Scotland’s Nature (26 January 2024) describes how the NatureScot’s Peatland ACTION is piloting a training scheme to help more people develop skills in practical peatland restoration. This aims to mitigate climate change and halt Scotland’s biodiversity loss.
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
This Scotland’s Nature blog post (17 July 2023), features Sekai Machache, a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Sekai looks at the notion of self, using photography to explore the historical and cultural imagination. A fascination with climate change and Scotland’s peatlands has led to a striking set [...]
