A vast area of peatbog in Scotland’s Flow Country could become one of Unesco’s newest World Heritage sites. But why do some people believe the landscape deserves the attention?
Heather Jardine was a girl when the machinery arrived to carve up the ground on hills around her home in Sutherland in the 1970s.
She remembers the peatbogs being drained as huge diggers were used to create massive ditches.
The land was being prepared for large blocks of commercial forestry, which involved the planting of millions of non-native trees.
Heather says: “It seemed quite exciting as a young child seeing all the planters and the activity.
“But later it was realised this had been the wrong thing to do.
“In the 2000s work started on taking all the forestry down and blocking up the ditches.” Read more:
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