As the burning season opens today thousands of fires will soon be started on the UK’s fragile peatland carbon stores – for grouse shooting. Calls to stop swathes of the UK’s iconic heather hills from being deliberately set ablaze have intensified as the grouse moor burning season officially begins. Between 1 […]
An iconic nature reserve in the Peak District has been granted fresh protection in a bid to help tackle the climate and nature crises. Kinder Scout, which is located at the highest point of the national park, has been extended by one quarter. The National Trust, which cares for the site, […]
Hot on the heels of details emerging about a shocking incident of hen harrier persecution Wild Moors has fired off a letter to Natural England to ask the wildlife watchdog to back grouse moor licensing. It comes amid reports of a satellite-tagged hen harrier named ‘Asta’ who was being studied as […]
The restoration of Ilkley Moor by Bradford Council has received recognition for making the iconic landscape better suited for benefiting nature, the climate and people. In the Yorkshire Post the landowner and its moorland management partners have been congratulated on the progress made to conserve rare heathlands, restore carbon-rich peatlands and […]
Senior members of the grouse shooting industry have warned that the controversial sport is facing an uncertain future amid the growing popularity of rewilding. In a talk given at the Game Fair in the run up to the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ of August, the traditional start of the grouse shooting season, shooting […]
