Wildlife is being killed in traps on Yorkshire Water moorland to preserve red grouse for shooting, the company has admitted for the first time. The acknowledgement was made in a statement to customers who raised concerns about wild animals being trapped, snared and shot by the company’s grouse shooting tenants. Gamekeepers […]
Signs warning walkers about the use of animal traps on Haworth and Stanbury moors have been put up by anti-bloodsports campaigners. Wild Moors installed the notices, bearing Yorkshire Water’s logo, around the company’s leased grouse shooting moors which are popular with dog walkers and ramblers. The wildlife conservation group says visitors […]
NG Bailey will end its grouse shooting lease on Denton Moor following lobbying by Wild Moors. It was announced yesterday, 21 March, by the leading engineering firm that its grouse shooting arrangements on the Denton Park Estate, Wharfedale, would be brought to an end. The decision follows a string of wildlife […]
Yorkshire Water will review the future of grouse shooting on Baitings, Turley Holes & Higher House Moors in Calderdale. The move has been welcomed by Wild Moors—which is lobbying the water company to stop leasing moorland for grouse shooting—and could spell the end for one of Yorkshire Water’s largest game bird […]
Walkers on some of the region’s most popular moorlands are being encouraged to report suspected wildlife persecution by a local conservation organisation. The appeal from Wild Moors follows large numbers of wild animals being trapped, snared and shot on moorland leased for grouse shooting by Yorkshire Water. Gamekeepers on the utility […]
