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Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad in action at Wester Moss, Fallin - packing up to leave, having completed a dam (foreground) to keep the bog wet. Rewetting the bog helps to sequester carbon and provides a more favourable habitat for bogland species to thrive.
17 April 2016
Bog Squad building a plastic dam, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad in action at Wester Moss, Fallin, inserting a plastic piling section to form a dam to keep the bog wet. Rewetting the bog helps to sequester carbon and provides a more favourable habitat for bogland species to thrive.
17 April 2016
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad in action at Wester Moss, Fallin, preparing to insert a 4 metre long plastic piling section into the peat, to dam back water in the bog and keep it wet. Rewetting the bog helps to sequester carbon and provides a more favourable habitat for bogland species to thrive.
17 April 2016
Bog Squad hammering in a plastic dam, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad in action at Wester Moss, Fallin, hammering in a section of plastic piling to build a dam and keep the bog wet. Rewetting the bog helps to sequester carbon and provides a more favourable habitat for bogland species to thrive.
17 April 2016
Bog Squad building a plastic dam, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad in action at Wester Moss, Fallin, inserting a plastic piling section to form a dam to keep the bog wet. Rewetting the bog helps to sequester carbon and provides a more favourable habitat for bogland species to thrive.
17 April 2016
Hammering in the dam
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
The Bog Squad hammering in the sections of a new dam, Wester Moss.
The dam is being constructed by Butterfly Conservation and Stirling Countryside Rangers to preserve the peat to enhance carbon sequestration and enhance the bog for butterflies and other invertebrates.
Most of the peat has been removed from raised bogs in Central Scotland, and habitat restoration is necessary to restore the remaining bogs to a favourable condition.
08 November 2015
Digging through the heather, Wester Moss
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
The Bog Squad digging through the heather to enable the first section of a new dam to be sunk, Wester Moss. Practical conservation can be a muddy business!
The dam is being constructed by Butterfly Conservation and Stirling Countryside Rangers to raise the water table in the bog and restore it to a favourable condition.
The aim is that Sphagnum moss will regrow at the expense of heather and trees, and help the peat to regrow and sequester carbon. The bog will also be more suitable for butterflies as a result.
