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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Wales unveils plans to triple rate of peatland restoration

Curlew
There are concerns that there could be as few as 400 breeding pairs of curlew left in Wales. Photograph: Mark Robert Paton/500px/Getty Images/500px Plus

A plan to triple the rate of peatland restoration in Wales to help combat the climate emergency and protect one of the country’s most celebrated birds, the curlew, has been announced by the Welsh government.

The Labour-led administration said it had accepted a raft of recommendations from an expert panel on how to halt biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse across the country’s varied land and seascapes.

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