... organisms to survive. If all the peat bogs are destroyed many rare plants will become extinct, something people will regret later and complain about. Many types of plants live in peat bogs, like heather, bog moss sundew milk wart, sphagnum moss and many others. Animals like frogs newts, leeches, water louse and so on all live in peat bogs. The Horticulture industry is mostly to blame for depleting peat bogs. They extract peat on a vast scale ruining the landscape, disrupting the ecosystem and changing the amount of water that is held in the ground. (The water table.) Gardeners bed their plants in peat, as they believe it is the best type of soil for planting their plants. They argue that although peat has to have fertilizing nutrients added to it (Peat naturally has no nutrition in it) it holds and releases water, retains air spaces, is reasonable sterile, toxin ...

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