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Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
John Burnside
John Burnside
John Burnside
Born: Mar 19, 1955

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Lost, Drainage, Enormous, Worldwide, Projects, Telephone, Area, Schemes, Roads, Development, Still, Being, Infrastructure, Electricity, Agricultural, Gas

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