Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser said areas such as blanket peat bog should be protected from development.

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This practice began the spread of peat blanket bog which nowadays covers much of the higher moorland.

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The island's peat and blanket bogs support wildlife and act as a natural store of potentially harmful carbon.

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