The annual World Bog Snorkelling Championship takes place on 26 August at the Waen Rhydd peat bog near Lanwrtyd Wells, Wales.
Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser said areas such as blanket peat bog should be protected from development.
Heysham Moss is a peat bog which is home to a wide range of plants and animals.
The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.
For three days, nearly 2, 000 acres of upland common and peat bog has been burning in a "catastrophic fire" in the Brecon Beacons between Trapp, Brynamman and Llandeilo.
Here, the object is to swim through thick, filthy water along two 60-yard lengths of a flooded peat bog trench, using only the paddling power of two feet and a snorkel to breathe.
The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains found on the moor and a hoard of about 150 beads.
BBC: 'Amazing' treasures revealed in Dartmoor bronze age cist
Earlier this year they had an abrupt and lethal lesson on the dangers of peat-bog fires.
This practice began the spread of peat blanket bog which nowadays covers much of the higher moorland.
When peat-bog fires blanketed Moscow and other big cities with acrid smoke in 2010, he took the controls of a firefighting plane on national TV.
Whether peat-bog fires are being encouraged by climate change is debatable.
Over the past four years, the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership has blocked moorland drains with peat dams to try to restore important blanket bog habitats in the North Pennines, and prevent the erosion of the peat.
But the scent that rings most true in my soul is peat Irish bog baked in the sun.
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