On July 5th 2019 I attended a special public event, Full Flow, in celebration of the Flow Country and raising the profile of the area's application for World Heritage Site status. The event and the application are about acknowledging the unique and characteristics of the Flow Country in a global context. What is it that makes the Flow Country special? The event featured three guest speakers to highlight the key characteristics.

Professor Barry Gilbertson, as a representative of Bath World Heritage Site, introduced the event by talking about the process, values and potential costs associated with World Heritage Site status.

Professor Iain Stewart reviewed the environmental importance of the Flow Country. As a carbon store, in the battle to mitigate climate change, the Flow Country is globally significant. The area also houses unique and specialised flora and fauna. Ultimately, biodiversity and landscape is underlain by geology. And the Flow Country has provided us insight into the Devonian era via fossil fish.

Neil Oliver closed the event, bringing the human perspective. Neil covered the heritage aspects of the Flow Country, the human cultural history.

This Photo Gallery is a celebration of the Flow Country, with photos of the landscape, the wildlife, and the heritage (ancient and recent) via architecture.

You can read more about the Flow Country and the World Heritage Site application here.

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