Blanket Peat bog

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World Heritage | Globally unique ‘Scotland flow country’ added

  Planet’s largest blanket bog is first peatland to be designated by Unesco after 40-year campaign As reported in the Guardian : The Flow Country, a vast and unspoiled blanket bog that carpets the far north of Scotland, has been made a world heritage site by Unesco. The planet’s largest blanket bog, the Flow Country covers about 1,500 sq miles of Caithness and Sutherland, and is the first peatland in the world to be designated by Unesco, after a 40-year...