Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations
Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Main image: A drone’s view shows people stacking freshly cut turf on a raised bog to help the peat dry over the summer months, in Clonbullogue, Ireland. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Sun 15 Jun 2025 08.00 CEST
Doreen King, the project manager of Bord na Móna’s peatlands climate action scheme, and Mark McCorry, ecology manager, walk past a carbon flux monitor, in Ballynahown. Rewetting bogs ‘is all about reducing the carbon emissions from the bare peatlands’, says King
