Cut peat drying for use as fuel at Long Island Farm outside Stanley in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean, South America

Cut peat stacked up for winter, Connemara, County Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Peat 'farming' or cutting, Connemara region near Clifden, County Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland (Eire), Europe

Turf cut by machine laid out to dry at Mountrivers peat bog, County Clare, West of Ireland

Turf cut by machine laid out to dry at Mountrivers peat bog, County Clare, West of Ireland

Turf cut by machine laid out to dry at Mountrivers peat bog, County Clare, West of Ireland

Blocks of peat cut out on a traditional farm, Connemara National Park, County Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Cut peat on a peat bog, Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Cut peat on a peat bog, Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Peat harvest, Tullamore, County Offaly, Leinster province, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Aerial view, Birches (Betula) in rewetted peat bogs in the Goldenstedter Moor, Goldenstedt, Oldenburger Muensterland, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Peat cut in raised bog, peat extraction, Durness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, Great Britain

Stacked cut peat in raised bog, Durness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, Great Britain