A spokesman for Natural Resources Wales - a Welsh Government sponsored body - said: "
Peat bogs are a very important part of the nature in Wales and we have several projects working to improve and maintain them across the country.
A police spokesman said the man was "submerged to just below his waist in a
peat bog and sinking further by the minute" after stepping into the bog while walking with a friend on Thursday.
"The presence of the cloud-living spider at Lampert Mosses has made the preservation of the
peat bogs even more important.
Artists find inspiration in all sorts of places and for Laura Harrington it was a
peat bog in the northern Pennines that became her muse.
Radiocarbon dating of other Michigan
peat bogs suggests organic material 16 feet beneath current ground level might have been in the environment 5,000 years or even longer.
In northern Europe, swamplike areas called
peat bogs are great environments for turning bodies into mummies.
Marshland,
peat bogs and so on are of paramount importance to store water, filtering it gradually into springs which are responsible for water supplies to many country residents, farms, private houses and so on.
Research from garden charity Garden Organic found more than 24 million wheelbarrows of peat, found in compost, are being used in the UK unnecessarily each year, wiping out
peat bogs, killing wildlife and destroying vital habitats.
The traditional uses of peat for fuel and building material was always at a low level and did very little damage to
peat bogs.
He said: "Because there are fires within dried out
peat bogs the flames themselves keep on simmering underneath the surface of the ground.