Amanda Ralph

Yeah, that's right.

It was one of the last bogs of Bournemouth to start to harvest and it's also one of the ones that they took the least amount of peat from.

When we surveyed and took some peat dabs on the private bog land we then decided to survey the entire bog so we took it into 230 separate grids and what we found is that the bog on average is 6 metres deep.

An acre 6 metre deep bog will store 50 times more carbon than an acre of forest.

This is the amount of carbon that is on this bog

I don't agree, Ella.

When Bournemouth stopped cutting peat here six years ago, they stopped maintaining the pumps on the bog, which were needed to keep the bog drained.

Those pumps have been off for five years, which has allowed the likes of the otter, hooper swan, other protected mammals and bird life to come back onto the bog for the first time in decades.

Bournemouth have said they're going to turn those pumps back on.

We're asking them not to do that.

It's going to really damage the habitat of these important species.

There's a bigger question here for the wider public.

Llamac Noyes, we can just see the round towers in the distance there, we're on the opposite side of the bog.

Llamac Noyes was on the UNESCO tentative world heritage list for 13 years.

The buffer zone for this UNESCO site encompassed the whole bog.

So we've gone from a position up until 2023 where the official policy of Ireland was to have a UNESCO site here, which would have meant that people would have had real problems building a shed, putting an extension on their house, to later in 2023 when it was removed from the list and Kern of Fuller Wind Farm, DAC, was set up by Bòrd na Món in SSE, to now being in a position where we're potentially going to have

wind turbines of up to 200 metres and beyond on this bog.

So it just doesn't add up.

Well, that would be good, but those plans already exist in a sense.

We have the nature restoration, we have the county development plans, which offer up huge areas of counties that are potentially suitable for wind farm development.