The National Trust and Yorkshire Water have announced a landmark partnership to restore and improve the UK’s uplands. Together, the two largest landowners in Yorkshire will deliver the ‘Landscapes for Water’ project, which will focus on restoring five upland areas in the South Pennines, spanning from Heptonstall Moor in the north […]
Scotland published a draft new law on Wednesday seeking to limit the impact of grouse moors and tackle the persecution of birds of prey, saying the nation’s natural environment must be protected. Introduction of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill would allow the government to licence grouse shooting estates and […]
Campaigners are renewing calls for the National Trust to protect wildlife on its land after evidence emerged of poison baits having been placed in the entrances of a badger sett on moorland owned by the conservation charity in the High Peak. This morning Wild Moors fired off a letter to National […]
The National Trust has decided to end grouse shooting on its land at Park Hall, in High Peak, Derbyshire, following the conclusion of an internal review. The Trust decided to not renew the lease due to ‘concerns over the management techniques utilised’ to promote the breeding of red grouse, which are […]
One of Scotland’s biggest landowners has agreed the sale of the final slice of its moorland near Langholm. Buccleuch has concluded missives with Oxygen Conservation over more than 11,000 acres in the area. It is even larger than the area of land already sold in a community buyout to create a nature […]
