In the Guardian today, the above, and:
Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions. Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants that grow after the burn. This increases the number of birds available to be shot for sport.
But, in part as a result of burning, 80% of England’s peatlands are now degraded. These rare habitats store carbon when they are in good condition, ‘locking in’ an estimated 3.2 billion tonnes in the UK alone. But, when they dry out from burning or draining, they emit rather than store carbon. Burning the peat can also kill wildlife, such as adders, toads, and ground-nesting birds.
There’s no mention of Scotland. Why the above image from the north of Scotland then? Does the writer not know where Caithness and Sutherland are or is just that kind of lazy Anglocentrism that sees the rest of the UK as in some way subject to England?
What’s happening in Scotland? Little news coverage but this from two years ago:
The sale of peat is set to be banned in Scotland, as part of wider plans to protect peatlands and reduce carbon emissions.
https://www.gov.scot/news/ending-the-sale-of-peat-in-scotland/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The Scottish media will adopt a line deriving from the Scottish Landowners’ Federation that any action on peat preservation will DEVASTATE the ‘country sports’ industry and cause a loss of jobs and DEPOPULATION that will far exceed the clearances. There will be a statement that, the landowners have a personal interest in maintaining the land and that they have been ‘the guardians of rural Scotland’.
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This is interesting for more information. The type of information that we shouldn’t HAVE to search for….Led and funded by the Scottish Government, Peatland Action is a national programme to restore peatland across Scotland.
Since 2012 The Peatland ACTION Programme has set over 51,000 ha of degraded peatland on the road to recovery.
https://www.nature.scot/doc/peatland-action-annual-review-2023-2024
In April 2019 The Scottish Government lead the nation in declaring a global climate emergency. In recognition that peatland restoration offers a clear nature-based solution to both the climate crisis and biodiversity loss the Scottish Government announced, early the following year, a multi-annual investment in peatland restoration of more than £250 million up to 2030.
https://www.nature.scot/climate-change/nature-based-solutions/peatland-action/peatland-action-what-we-have-achieved
This is the type of good news story that the British media most definitely DON’T want the people of Scotland to know anything about!!!
JB
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