Environment

New restoration contracts appeared this week for peatland on North Uist and in the Highlands. Behind the engineering work is an emerging market in which repairing damaged Scottish land can create carbon units with owners, buyers, contracts and a place on a national registry.

One of Scotland’s oldest forms of land management is about to enter a new legal system. From 15 September, every act of muirburn in Scotland will require a licence, with additional restrictions where the fire is set on deep peat. The change reaches across