Sarah Lashley, Flow Country World Heritage Site Co-ordinator, explains why we should care about the bog below our feet The Flow Country, extending to around 400,000 hectares of Caithness and Sutherland in the north of Scotland, is considered to be the most outstanding example of an actively accumulating blanket bog landscape in the world. This exceptional landscape and its unique features resulted the highest-quality peatland and its supporting habitats being inscribed by UNESCO as The Flow Country World Heritage Site, in July 2024. It is Scotland’s only mainland natural World Heritage Site, one of just three natural sites in the…
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