Environmental advocates are looking to protect peatland in Saskatchewan’s north, saying it's a climate-critical ecosystem threatened by mining.

The Wildlife Conservation Society recently released a proposal for a national peatland strategy that calls on federal and provincial governments to adopt urgent measures safeguarding the ecosystems.

Peatlands, also known as muskegs, are defined by their carbon-rich soil, created when organic matter decomposes.

A Quebec company, Lambert Peat Moss Inc., has made a proposal to construct and operate a peat harvesting project on Crown land about 15 kilometres south of La Ronge.

The project would extract peat to make agricultural products, pulling from four harvesting sites covering 2,619 hectares. It would include building access roads, staging area

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