Flow Country on TV next week
The wildlife and landscapes of the Forsinard Flows Nature Reserve is to star in Ray Mears’ “Wild Britain” television series.
A programme highlighting the area is to be broadcast on Friday 25 November at 8pm.
RSPB and Scottish Natural Heritage staff supported and took part in the filming. Among those taking part were RSPB’s Forsinard Flows site manager Norrie Russell and SNH’s wader expert and author Des Thompson.
Norrie said: “The Flow Country sits perched in the far North of Scotland, its thousands of bog pools studding its velvety smoothness like jewels on Scotland’s natural heritage crown.
“As well as being hugely important for wildlife it is an area of extraordinary natural impact. I know that Ray was really taken by it and was enthralled to find anywhere this wild anywhere in Britain.
“I think you’ll get an impression of the impact it made on him if you watch the programme. It will be a wonderful advertisement for Caithness and Sutherland and I’m sure will attract many visitors here.”
He added: “The Flow Country has been proposed as a candidate for becoming a World Heritage Site. The independent experts’ panel that assessed the proposal described it as ‘the best and largest surviving example of a blanket bog system, the most globally important ecosystem in mainland Britain’ and ‘as one of Scotland’s two natural heritage assets which are probably not bettered anywhere else in the world.’
“It’s great that this visit by Ray is allowing us to showcase the Flows to potentially millions of viewers.”
