A new analysis has shown that restored upland peatlands could be worth more than four times the economic value of grouse shooting.
Yorkshire Water to review the future of game bird shooting on Thornton Moor
Yorkshire Water is set to decide the future of a controversial game bird shooting arrangement on its land at Thornton Moor. The review will consider whether to continue allowing the shooting of grouse and partridge for sport on the popular moorland next to Ogden Water Nature Reserve, near Halifax, when the […]
Shocking new statistics show over 1,200 fires set in England’s nature sites by grouse moors
New figures showing the appalling scale of grouse moors setting fire to some of England’s most protected nature sites have been released today by the conservation campaigning organisation Wild Moors.Between October 2021 and April 2022, there were 1,203 reported incidents of grouse moors burning on carbon-rich peatlands to cultivate younger, more […]
National Trust tightens up the rules on grouse shooting
The National Trust has tightened up the rules surrounding management of a vast expanse of moorland in the Peak District for grouse shooting. Following a consultation held over the spring, the National Trust—which manages the 32,000 hectare High Peak Estate on behalf of the nation—has agreed that trapping and snaring of […]
Extinction looms for Peak District’s iconic mountain hares
New research by Manchester Metropolitan University and Queen’s University Belfast published in the journal Ecology and Evolution has warned that just 3,500 mountain hares remain in England. The study found that the iconic species which is only found in the Peak District is holding out in areas of moorlands where their […]