GLOBAL WOODLAND & PEATLAND DISTRIBUTION

SITE SELECTION CRITERIA

By addressing the management and exploitation of both land uses at the national scale, we aim at designing a land assessment tool that will address the conflict of coexistence of woodlands and peatlands and tackle peat restoration in Scotland.

Making use of existing initiatives, expanding on existing land assessment tools and looking into mapping techniques to understand the geomorphology of the peatland area.

on the areas of conflict, land ownership, carbon crediting systems, and peat action plans. The aim is to gather the knowledge into a restoration manual where we come back with restoration polices that are not only related to the technicalities but expand to tackle the way communities manage the land.

These community driven initiatives are managed and owned by the:

National Trust for Scotland Royal Society for the Protection of birds Border forest Trust Forest Commission Scotland John Muir trust We have selected 2 specific sites for further analysis.

Diagram 18: Site Selection Criteria Drawn by S. Halaoui

EXISTING SITE INITIATIVES

Diagram 19: Existing Site Initiatives Drawn by S. Halaoui