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Bogs

The Flow Country, Forsinard.

Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

The Guardian

How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

The Flow Country is to gain Unesco world heritage status years

after the area was being destroyed in a tax break scheme,

and thanks to campaigners, Nigel Lawson – and this newspaper

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how-the-observer-helped-save-scotlands-bogs-from-destruction-flow-country

bog

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/
how-the-observer-helped-save-scotlands-bogs-
from-destruction-flow-country

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/02/
scotland-bogs-world-heritage-status-flow-country-unesco

blanket bog

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/02/
scotland-bogs-world-heritage-status-flow-country-unesco

boggy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/
how-the-observer-helped-save-scotlands-bogs-
from-destruction-flow-country

expanse of peat and pools

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/
how-the-observer-helped-save-scotlands-bogs-
from-destruction-flow-country

be carpeted with sphagnum moss

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/02/
scotland-bogs-world-heritage-status-flow-country-unesco

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