A peat bog restoration programme in North Yorkshire
© Doug Houghton images/Alamy Stock Photo
If we are to restore wetlands in the UK, we need to take drastic action. The UK government has set a goal to create and restore 100,000 hectares of wetland in the UK by 2050, and pledged to phase out the use of peat in gardens by 2030.
Using geographical information systems (GIS), the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) has created interactive maps to identify eligible land to meet this goal and predicted to return at least £8 billion of economic benefits to the UK over 60 years (WWT, 2025).
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