Soggy British bog is being championed as a World Heritage Site — alongside the Taj Mahal, Egypt’s pyramids and Stonehenge

A SOGGY British bog is being championed as a World Heritage Site — alongside the Taj Mahal, Egypt’s pyramids and Stonehenge.

Leading the fight is TV professor Iain Stewart, who says the wetlands are the “crown jewels of peatland”.

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The 1,500 sq mile bog, called The Flow Country, also soaks up the global warming gas carbon dioxide.

Prof Stewart, who has hosted Horizon, Volcano Live and other shows, said: “It is such a unique habitat, probably the world’s best.” He now hopes to persuade heritage site chooser UNESCO.

But the bog, in Scotland’s Caithness and Sutherland, is not to everyone’s taste. One Victorian explorer wrote: “An uglier country would not ­easily be found.”

Yesterday Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank observatory became the latest World Heritage Site.

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What it's up against

Stonehenge

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