So what is an Irish Mountain Bog Lake? - Behind the Scenes Johnnie Lawson Nature #Shorts 2

In this behind the scenes #shorts video I bring you into the wild and out onto the top an Irish mountain which is covered in bog. Right into the middle of this bog I show you what a bog lake looks like. Lake is a bit of an exaggeration, it is really just a pond but they are know as bog lakes.
Bog is the decaying matter from mostly low lying vegetation, heather, tough grasses but mainly mosses, particularly Sphagnum moss. Because there is so much water caught up in the bog there is a lack of oxygen to help the decaying process the vegetation barely breaks down and so year upon year the layers of matter builds up higher and higher, mean whilst the weight of the upper layers exert more and more pressure on the lower layers as the depth of the bog increases. The lower layers become more and more dense and can after many hundreds of years turn into a material which used to be cut into long brick shape sods and left in the air to dry out. Because the sod is almost entirely made of broken down vegetation it is very high in carbon and so makes an excellent fuel.
However in most parts of Ireland the cutting of these bogs has become illegal for a number of reasons. Because bogs are mainly carbon they are an excellent carbon sink for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it safely underground. Bogs in their own right are a very specific ecosystem and quite unique to Ireland. Many of these ecosystems have been lost through time. There has been recently an active rewetting of a lot of these areas with the hope that they will return to being bogs again in the future.
In the hollows water sits and sits because the ground around is so wet the water just can't get away, it stays there and becomes this mini ecosystem in it's own right, supporting a whole host of wildlife.

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