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World Peatlands Day celebrated with record restoration figures in Scotland - Scottish Rural Network

Job opportunities, collaboration and nature recovery show promise for the national commitment to restore Scotland’s degraded peatlands.

On the day (Tuesday 2 June) the world celebrates the importance of healthy peatlands, the annual Peatland ACTION review has revealed that 15,448 hectares of peatland restoration – the equivalent of nearly 30,000 football pitches – was achieved in Scotland through the partnership in 2025. This total is over 3,000ha above the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government target for 2025/26.

Healthy peatlands are carbon sinks, estimated to hold the equivalent of 140 years’ worth of the country’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions. Scotland has around 2million hectares of them, but they are currently one of our largest degraded ecosystems making them a contributor to climate change if we don’t restore them.