‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sustainable-palm-oil-firms-continue-illegal-peatland-clearing-despite-permit-revocation/

#Wildlife trust buys massive £17.5m #Highland estate

March 3, 2025

"A conservation charity has bought an 18,824-acre (7,618ha) Highland estate for £17.5m after receiving a large private donation.

"Scottish Wildlife Trust (#SWT) plans to regenerate native woodland, restore #peatland and carry out nature-friendly farming on #InverbroomEstate.

"The area of land near Ullapool, in the north west Highlands, is larger than the city of Dundee.

"The donation that made the purchase possible was the largest in the trust's 60-year history."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr42n0dqqzno
#Rewilding #Scotland #SolarPunkSunday

Thanks to @cabinradio for this story. "The #NWT has some giant #carbon sinks – places within the landscape that lock up carbon like the #borealforest, #peatland and #permafrost. How we keep the carbon in those sinks is a big and increasingly important question, not just for the territory but for humanity as a whole." https://cabinradio.ca/220349/news/environment/wildfires/how-do-we-keep-the-nwts-huge-carbon-stores-out-of-the-air/

"#Indonesia is home to as much as half of the planet’s tropical #peatland, a unique ecosystem vital to averting the worst results of #ClimateChange.

Government leaders have made halting efforts to protect peatlands over the last two decades, but three years ago, when the pandemic disrupted food supply chains, officials launched an ambitious land-clearance operation in a push to expand the cultivation of crops and cut Indonesia’s reliance on expensive imports."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/19/indonesia-peatlands-climate-change-warming/