The Flow Country covers around 4,000 square kilometres and supports a complex and fragile ecosystem that stores around 400 million tonnes of carbon, more than all the UK’s forests, and woodlands combined.

World Heritage Site status is predicted to help realise a wide range of environmental, social, cultural, and economic benefits for the north of Scotland, including the creation of skills and job opportunities in landscape restoration and conservation, growth in sustainable tourism and hospitality, and the potential of added value to new green finance models to attract global investment to the area.