The Flow Country
Dublin Core
Title
The Flow Country
Description
The Flow Country, located in Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland, is the largest blanket bog in Europe, covering around 4,000 km². This expansive peatland, rich in deep peat and dotted with bog pools, is crucial in wildlife habitat and climate change mitigation. Peat, composed of plant remains stores significant amounts of carbon that would otherwise contribute to global warming if released into the atmosphere.
However, the area has faced historical damage due to large-scale drainage and afforestation during the 1970s and 1980s, which degraded the peatland, releasing stored carbon and disrupting ecosystems. In 2019, a wildfire further impacted the area, affecting the most degraded zones and threatening the peatland’s delicate balance.
Source
is51102025
Date
2018:01:06 19:37:57
Contributor
Haiyin XU
Type
Site
Identifier
1295
Date Submitted
24/03/2025
Date Modified
03/24/2025 08:37:41 pm
Extent
cm x cm x cm
Spatial Coverage
current,58.148242236491306,-4.745692322264267;
Europeana
Europeana Data Provider
The Flow Country
Object
https://theflowcountry.org.uk/
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Institutional nature
Building
Prim Media
3223
Contact
hx36@st-andrews.ac.uk
Notes
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts under the UN Agenda 2030.
Citation
“The Flow Country,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/3217.
Embed
Copy the code below into your web page