Scotland's Flow Country ... Country as "the largest area of blanket bog in the world". "The peat is composed of not-quite-rotted-away remains of plants -and plants, when they're growing, take ...

Red deer, mountain hares, lizards, amphibians, insect-eating sundew plants and a host of invertebrates also thrive on peatlands ... The Flows alone holds 5% of the global blanket bog resources. But 80 ...

travel along the north coast of Scotland the benefits and issues that ... A very wet, marshy area of land where moss and other bog plants decay very slowly forming layers of peat.

The Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of Scotland ... bog ecosystem supports a range of notable ...

Scotland’s peat bogs provide homes for bog specialists such as the Large ... used as dumps and stripped of peat and plants for garden use. This also threatens to exacerbate climate change ...

Ecologists said they were astounded in April to come across a sudden and exuberant display of the slender sedge plant population at Askham Bog. The species was thought lost from the reserve in ...

Preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds ...

Two people whose remains were among 14 bodies found in the latrine of a Roman bath house may have come from the other side of medieval Scotland ... “the bodies in the bog”, and used isotope ...

It also inhabits wetter or drier sites when meadow voles are scarce or absent. Wherever the bog lemming lives, it creates a maze of interconnecting tunnels and runways 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in) wide, and ...

Create a bog garden, which is good also for attracting wildlife. Plant irises, carex, gunnera, primulas, hostas, rheum and rodgersia. If you are planning to lay a lawn, ensure the ground is not ...

An artifact from World War Two wrapped in potato sacks was uncovered in a peat bog. It was found in Coire a’Bhradain on the Isle of Arran, which is located off the west coast of Scotland.