"ned" wrote in message
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David W.E. Roberts wrote:
"anita" wrote in message
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On a lot of garden programs they all say they don't like or use
peat
why is this?
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anita

Because the peat takes a long time to create (many centuries if not
millenia) and it is being excavated to extinction

....... Strictly speaking, it was extinct before it was excavated.
;-)

.........by commercial users.
This destroys a major natural habitat.

There is no denying that.
However, ..... in some specific areas where they are trying to
re-introduce wetlands (creating one environment at the expense of
another), it is necessary to skim off the higher exposed layers of
peat and so a certain amount is still being commercially 'harvested'
under strict controls and licences. It's an ecological juggling act.

In which the extractors hold all the trump cards, if one may be said to do
an ecological juggle with cards.

Franz