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The Government champion the rewetting of peatlands as a silver bullet to save them. However, most of our peatlands cannot be rewetted. Moreover, the chief executive of Natural England told me only a couple of weeks ago that she did not know how much could be rewetted. Where it is possible, both Defra and Natural England acknowledge that rewetting will take time. How valid in the long term is this policy, given that climate change is affecting the potential for consistently high water tables characteristic of healthy sphagnum peatlands?