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- Flow_Country abstract "The Flow Country is a large, rolling expanse of peatland and wetland area of Caithness and Sutherland in Scotland. It is the largest expanse of blanket bog in Europe, and covers about 4,000 square kilometres (1500 mile2).The area is home to a rich variety of wildlife, and is used as a breeding ground for many different species of birds, including greenshank, dunlin, merlin and golden plover.The Flow Country was badly damaged between 1979 and 1987 through the planting of non-native conifer forests and the cutting of thousands of miles of drains. The trees dried out the peat, changing the habitat and destroying its value for birds and other wildlife. The trees were mostly planted on land bought by Fountain Forestry who recognised that this would be attractive to wealthy investors who could claim planting grants and tax relief against all their other income, at a time of high personal taxation. The ploughing of the bogs and tree planting helped to reduce local unemployment which was among the highest in the United Kingdom: however in 1987 the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) launched a report in London that was highly critical of the foresters. The Scots angered by this interference in Scottish affairs persuaded the Conservative Party government to disband the NCC and create a separate Scottish agency now called Scottish Natural Heritage. However in 1988 Nigel Lawson, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, recognised that a tax break was doing enormous harm to the last real wilderness in the United Kingdom and scrapped the forestry tax reliefs. This immediately halted further planting and encouraged the Forestry Commission to adopt a much broader approach that respects existing landscapes. In an effort to restore the damage, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have bought a large area in the centre of the Flow Country and have created the Forsinard nature reserve. More than 20 km2 has been bought back from Fountain Forestry and the young trees felled and allowed to rot in the plough furrow in the hope and expectation that, in 30 to 100 years, the land will revert to peat bog.The Flow Country is on the 2006 UK \"tentative list\" as a possible UNESCO World Heritage Site. The application was re-listed in 2010 and Stuart Housden, the director of RSPB Scotland and a member of the Rural Development Council, said, \"This largely unspoilt landscape has thousands of hectares of ancient blanket peat land, making this perhaps the most important area of its type in the Northern Hemisphere. A global badge would certainly help us to get this special place in better heart. This area was sorely threatened in the 1980s and early 1990s by inappropriate afforestation, but just in time a conservation campaign mounted by the RSPB stopped the worst excesses. Action is now underway to restore the area.\"".
- Flow_Country thumbnail Sutherland_Flow_Country.jpg?width=300.
- Flow_Country wikiPageExternalLink index.aspx.
- Flow_Country wikiPageExternalLink peat-bogs.
- Flow_Country wikiPageID "2683607".
- Flow_Country wikiPageLength "5485".
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- Flow_Country wikiPageRevisionID "699461212".
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Acid.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Blanket_bog.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Bog.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Caithness.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Caithness.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Highland_(council_area).
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Sutherland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Protected_areas_of_Highland_(council_area).
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rural_Scotland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Category:Wetlands_of_Scotland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Common_greenshank.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_Party_(UK).
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Dunlin.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink European_golden_plover.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Far_North_Line.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Forestry_Commission.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Forsinard.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Forsinard_railway_station.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Fountain_Forestry.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Scotland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Merlin_(bird).
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Nature_Conservancy_Council.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Nature_reserve.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Nigel_Lawson.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Peat.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Pinophyta.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Society_for_the_Protection_of_Birds.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Rural_Development_Council_(Scotland).
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_Natural_Heritage.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Sutherland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink UNESCO.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Unemployment.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink Wetland.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLink File:Sutherland_Flow_Country.jpg.
- Flow_Country wikiPageWikiLinkText "Flow Country".
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- Flow_Country wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Flow_Country wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_British_English.
- Flow_Country wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_dmy_dates.
- Flow_Country wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:World_Heritage_Site_Tentative_List_applicants_in_Scotland.
- Flow_Country subject Category:Caithness.
- Flow_Country subject Category:Landforms_of_Highland_(council_area).
- Flow_Country subject Category:Landforms_of_Sutherland.
- Flow_Country subject Category:Protected_areas_of_Highland_(council_area).
- Flow_Country subject Category:Rural_Scotland.
- Flow_Country subject Category:Wetlands_of_Scotland.
- Flow_Country hypernym Expanse.
- Flow_Country point "58.371478 -3.658447".
- Flow_Country type Area.
- Flow_Country type Place.
- Flow_Country type Area.
- Flow_Country type Redirect.
- Flow_Country type SpatialThing.
- Flow_Country comment "The Flow Country is a large, rolling expanse of peatland and wetland area of Caithness and Sutherland in Scotland.".
- Flow_Country label "Flow Country".
- Flow_Country sameAs Q1847928.
- Flow_Country sameAs Flow_Country.
- Flow_Country sameAs m.07xs42.
- Flow_Country sameAs Q1847928.
- Flow_Country lat "58.371478".
- Flow_Country long "-3.658447".
- Flow_Country wasDerivedFrom Flow_Country?oldid=699461212.
- Flow_Country depiction Sutherland_Flow_Country.jpg.
- Flow_Country isPrimaryTopicOf Flow_Country.