MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING
Jul 02, 2020
2 minutes
Bleak, frequently shrouded in low cloud and with rain never far away, blanket bogs initially appear to be desolate and forsaken places. Yet these vast, treeless landscapes are at last becoming more widely appreciated. The UK holds around 13 per cent of the world’s surviving blanket bog, which – you might be surprised to learn – covers just under a tenth of our total
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