About Blanket Bog
Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground.
Formal bid made for Flow Country Unesco status
Feb 2,2023 6:01 am
... The area of Caithness and Sutherland contains the most intact and extensive Blanket Bog system in the world...
Peat soil fires: Campaigners say England's 'rainforests' illegally burned
May 30,2022 2:55 am
... When the government introduced the new regulations, it said there was " consensus that burning vegetation on Blanket Bog is damaging to peatland formation and habitat condition...
