A three-year project to restore an area of peatland larger than 780 football pitches in Inverclyde is now underway thanks to funding from Peatland ACTION. The Duchal Moor project will restore an area of 788 hectares of drained peatland in Inverclyde in a bid to cut carbon emissions and increase biodiversity. Inverclyde Council is one of the first local authorities in Scotland to carry out peatland restoration on this scale.
It has been awarded £768,705 from NatureScot’s Peatland ACTION partnership to carry out the work, which began in early 2024. The project has been supported by the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network's Clyde Peatlands initiative, which aims to increase the rate and scale of peatland restoration across the whole City Region. Peatland ACTION is creating a case study film for the project, which will be available on its NatureScot YouTube channel this spring.
