Article 6Y07R On Ireland’s peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition – in pictures

On Ireland’s peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition – in pictures

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Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
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Bord na Mona, 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

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