Map shows 80% of England’s peatlands dry and degraded

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8zg4y8979o

by gordon22

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  1. It found that peaty soil covers roughly 8.5% of England’s surface with four-fifths of England’s peatlands also revealed to be in a dry and degraded state.

    The map showed that three-quarters of the surface was shown to be covered by plants and land use types associated with dryer conditions such as heather, while only 1% is covered by important peat-forming plants such as sphagnum moss.

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