maurits barking is managing director of klansmen deilmann the world market leader in peak extraction and production the company started out as a small factory in one thousand nine hundred thirteen in lower saxony but peat stocks in northern. money will be exhausted in a few years time. it took a long time for klansmen deilmann to agree to let us film the company was worried that video of pete extraction would be bad for its image. booking says that the peak industry has long since stopped destroying more land that still intact so they're not damaging the environment. haven't listened on the sr on for more than a decade we've been working with the new bill roll materials like wood fiber green waste compost and coconut fibers and they can gradually replace peat even in commercial garden. but how much can be replaced. with a day almost ten percent we aim to increase that to fifteen percent over the next two and a half years as the company continues to grow it will increase its use of renewable raw materials. so as it were not in the most awful. one of those raw materials is wood specifi

klansmen deilmann was one of the first german companies to start extracting peat in the baltic states for example of the more near shooter the soviets had extracted peat in the baltic region for decades now private companies are taking what's left despite klansmen diamonds claims of transparency the company did not allow us to film its operations here. the company's pete extraction site is located near the nature reserve this part of the moore is managed in part by germany's nature and biodiversity conservation association. tom cure shai who works for the group takes a dim view of private companies peat extraction efforts here. dollars from fisherman companies say that they'll only work on more that have already been damaged but any kind of peat extraction causes damage or the history of. the nature reserve had already been drained but not much detail been extracted here conservation groups have filled in more than one thousand ditches to prevent the land but now the birch trees are dying because they are standing in water. to twenty and biologists or kindness has been helping to pres