The Government’s independent advisor on climate change has called for a comprehensive land use strategy to help tackle climate change. The Climate Change Committee warns in its newly-released Progress Report to Parliament that there is a high risk of the UK not achieving net-zero without widescale land use change, which includes […]
A new analysis has shown that restored upland peatlands could be worth more than four times the economic value of grouse shooting.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
