Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

There is a major misunderstanding about what can be done under the protected network, which is what the Department is concentrated upon. That is right and it is the first thing we need. We must remember the protected designated network is only 20% of the peatlands. We are not even talking about the rest because it is owned by landowners. It is why we must move on to farming carbon. It is different from what the Government can do with its protected designated sites that must be done anyway under the habitats directive. The work should have been done a long time ago, but we are now catching up. That will lock in and, I hope, sequester more carbon. I am pretty sure I will see that network safe before I leave the planet and I would be happy with that. The rest is a problem and we need a policy to manage the peatlands not in this protected network.