The
Flow Country, the unique peatland around Caithness and Sutherland, was chosen as the UK's only location for the World Heritage Volunteer (WHV) programme this year.
Nearly a quarter of this is the
Flow Country, it is the best blanket bog of its type on the planet.
Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stir-ling
FLOW COUNTRY EXHIBITION: See Fri for details.
Now a working group has been set up to push forward the plan to achieve official designation for the
Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland as a natural World Heritage Site.
A touring exhibition CALLEDTHE
Flow Country, currently at Annan, has been created by RSPB Scotland for the Peatlands Partnership.
Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
FLOW COUNTRY EXHIBITION: This exhibition is all about the peatlands of the
Flow Country, which stretches through Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of Scotland and is the best blanket bog of its type in the world, a place of vast inspirational landscapes, an epic backdrop to fascinating and beautiful details, from soaring hen harriers to insectivorous plants.
One vast area of blanket bog of worldwide importance is the
Flow Country of Caithness and East Sutherland – 1500 acres of moorlands, sprinkled silver and blue with lochs and lochans where golden plover pipe from sphagnum tussock, dunlin and greenshank nest.
The
Flow Country is a true wilderness that has remained virtually untouched by humans since the end of the last ice age.
Britain's mountains and moorlands, lowland heath and the Scottish
Flow Country are some of the toughest habitats of all; places where life really does live on the edge.
It includes: Darwin at Downe (the 2006 nomination), the Lake District, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Industry, Chatham Naval Dockyard, The New Forest, Great Western Railway, Shakespeare's Stratford, The Wash and North Norfolk Coast, Cairngorm Mountains, The
Flow Country, Mount Stewart Gardens, Forth Railway Bridge, Fortress of Gibraltar.
Unrivalled beauty and unspoilt nature of the Cairngorms and the
Flow Country, allied to traditional Gaellic language, literature, music and dance.
The Peatlands Partnership will host a one-day conference focusing on the conservation achievements of The Flows to the Future Project and looking forward to the future of the
Flow Country.