Peatland Restoration
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Peatland Restoration
We have partnered with NatureScot and the Peatland Action Fund to help deliver peatland restoration across Lochaber and Skye.
In their natural state peatlands store carbon, so are important in tackling climate change and maintaining environmental balance alongside increasing greenhouse gas emissions. As the basis of rural farming, sporting, tourism and crofting they are also vital to our economy and should be protected and maintained. The fund is designed to help landowners and managers restore degrade peatland habitat within their landholdings and generate this resilience.
In addition, peatlands form an important part of many of Scotland’s river catchments and healthy peatlands can benefit fisheries in a number of ways:
• Reduction of flood events: as peat holds back water in flood events, it can reduce the severity of floods and lessen the impacts of these floods, such as wash-out of redds.
• Reduction of drought conditions: Peat acts like a sponge and holds water back, releasing it slowly in dry periods
• Improved water quality: peatland restoration reduces fine sediment entering the water and reduces colouration of water
• Reduction in acid flushes: especially in upland areas and afforested catchments
• Reduction of some pollutants in water
For more information on peatland ACTION take a look at NatureScot’s website: Peatland ACTION link on button below.