In the project, a blanket bog - home to two rare and protected birds, the merlin and hen harrier - is being rewetted to ...

Extension to ban of burning on deep peat proposed by Government, so that an extra 146,000 hectares are protected Peatlands ...

Healthy peatlands can help tackle climate change, reduce flood risk, improve water quality and support rare wildlife.

A project involving rewetting sections of a blanket bog near Mullagh in west Clare is aiming to boost biodiversity in the ...

Hundreds of hectares of peatland is being restored in a project which aims to prevent Glasgow's tap water turning brown during extreme rain. Loch Katrine, in the heart of Loch Lomond and the ...

An upland landscape with heather in bloom (File/Emily Beament/PA) A ban preventing the burning of heather and other vegetation across swathes of peatland ... of blanket bog, including the entire ...

A ban preventing the burning of heather and other vegetation across swathes of peatland will be expanded ... country’s 677,250 hectares of blanket bog, including the entire area of upland ...