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In the U.K., where about 80 per cent of peatlands have been damaged, England has vowed to ban the sale of peat for use in gardens by 2024.
Map showing boundaries of three large wildfires on the Pamlico-Albemarle Peninsula in eastern North Carolina, including the 1985 Allen Road Fire, and the 2008 Evans Road Fire, both of which burned significant portions of the Pocosin peatlands.
Much maligned and undervalued over the centuries, temperate peatlands have seen a lot damage in that time — drained for agriculture, planted with trees, mined for horticulture and fuel.
"Their findings are then fed directly into the Peat Data Hub hosted by the University of Leeds and are an important resource for assessing the effectiveness of restoration and how peatlands are changing through time.”
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"They are challenging environments, but they've never been valued for their biodiversity, for their carbon," said Lorna Harris, an ecosystem scientist and forest, peatlands and climate change program lead for the Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada.
This is harming the fragile peatlands.
Whittington's current research is for drain peat fens, or peatlands fed by groundwater, bogs, and streams, which are more complicated.