From CAROLINE STEEL
Readers might like to know that some 65.8 per cent of raised bogs held
by members of the Peat Producers Association are Sites of Special Scientific
Interest – notified as such because of their importance for nature conservation.
Some 90 per cent of Fisons peatland holding has SSSI status.
Commercial working of bogs involves drainage and stripping of surface
vegetation before either milling the surface layers or digging out the peat.
These processes are not compatible with nature conservation.
Nationally and internationally important bogs are being destroyed while
we could be utilising our own waste products in horticulture, landscaping
and gardening.
Caroline Steel Wilflife Trusts Partnership Royal Society for Nature
Conservation Lincoln
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