Wildlife campaigners are calling on the government to introduce mandatory licensing of grouse moors to eradicate illegal bird of prey persecution. It follows the grouse shooting season being overshadowed by a wave of wildlife crime as it opens today on the ‘Glorious Twelfth’. Birds of prey have been shot, poisoned and […]
York Council’s leadership backs ban on grouse moor burning in bid to avert flood risk
York Council’s leadership has backed a ban on heather burning to save the region’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. In a letter sent to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Cllr Keith Aspden, Leader of the Council, said that the environmentally-damaging practice, which is performed by shoot […]
Mayor of Doncaster calls for an end to grouse moor burning to protect the town from flooding
Doncaster Council has backed a ban on heather burning to save the region’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. In a letter sent to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Mayor Ros Jones said that the environmentally-damaging practice, which is performed by shoot operators to engineer breeding habitat for […]
Calderdale Council’s Leadership votes to support a ban on grouse moor burning
Calderdale Council’s leadership has backed a ban on heather burning to save the region’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. In a motion unanimously passed by the Labour Group on Monday night, councillors agreed that the environmentally-damaging practice, which is performed by shoot operators to engineer breeding habitat for red […]
Police probe goshawk killing on Queen’s grouse moor
A protected goshawk has been illegally killed on one of North Yorkshire’s most iconic grouse moors owned by Her Majesty The Queen. North Yorkshire Police launched an investigation into the Duchy of Lancaster’s Goathland Estate, nestled in the heart of the North York Moors, after being handed footage (available here) by Wild […]