Peatlands
Allt Power in partnership with Caladonian Climate has launched a Peatlands restoration project.
“Actively eroding and degraded peatlands represent around 6% of Scotland’s annual GHG emissions and as a result, rapid action is required to help tackle climate change and halt biodiversity loss.
The good news is that restoration is highly effective; by rewetting these fragile landscapes, carbon can be locked away and dramatic improvements in biodiversity can be realised. Invertebrate life and an array of ground nesting birds thrive on restored sites and this can be enjoyed by hillwalkers as they visit the area.
Spread over 168 hectares, our first restoration phase is cited on a relatively flat plateau above Glean Tanagaidh to the east. The site ranges in elevation from 330-420 metres and represents the first of many peatland restoration phases that we plan on carrying out over the next few years.”
Forestry and Woodlands
Forests and woodlands provide wide-ranging and diverse benefits to society. These include important economic outputs, such as the income and employment that is generated by forest industries, and the wider contribution that forests indirectly make to other sectors such as tourism. Well-managed forests and woodlands also deliver a range of ‘social and environmental’ goods and services.
These include:
- taking up carbon from the atmosphere;
- supporting and enhancing biodiversity;
- contributing to the visual quality of the landscape;
- providing opportunities for open-access outdoor recreation;
- other benefits such as improving air quality, regulating water supply and water quality.
These social and environmental benefits are often not traded in markets, and so no price is directly paid by individuals to receive them. However, understanding the value that people place on these benefits provides useful information for the management of forest resources.
Existing and Potential Replanted Native Woodland at Kinlochewe Estate
MAP shows 1-5 planned forestry projects in hatched green, dark green shows existing forests
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