User:IkeSOH/Sphagnum

Conservation
The U.S. gets up to 80% of sphagnum peat moss it uses from Canada. In Canada, the peat bog mass harvested each year is an estimated 1/60th of the mass that accumulates. About 0.02% of the 1.1 million km2 (422,000 square miles) of Canadian peat bog are used for peat moss mining.

Coir has also been touted as a sustainable alternative to peat moss in growing media.


 * Home - CSPMA. APTHQ. (2022, June 14). From https://peatmoss.com/.
 * https://theecologist.org/2013/jan/25/truth-about-peat-moss
 * https://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/coir-sustainable-alternative-peat-moss-garden
 * Frape, D. (2016, September 25). The functions and sizes of the five carbon sinks on Planet Earth and their relation to climate change part I their present sizes and locations. World Agriculture. From http://www.world-agriculture.net/article/the-functions-and-sizes-of-the-five-carbon-sinks-on-planet-earth-and-their-relation-to-climate-change-part-i-their-present-sizes