Yorkshire Water is facing growing calls to stop leasing moorland for grouse shooting because of considerable damage to wildlife and the environment, including decomposing animals being left to rot in jaw-like traps on Stanbury Moor, West Yorkshire – one of thirteen owned by the company on which grouse shooting is permitted […]

Bradford-based Yorkshire Water is facing growing calls to stop leasing moorland across the region for grouse shooting following discovery of ‘jaw-like’ traps on its upland estate. Wild Moors uncovered the contraptions, which are controversially deployed to kill native wildlife so as to preserve game birds for shooting parties, during June. Over […]

The future of grouse shooting on Denton Moor will be reviewed as part of an environmental drive by owners, NG Bailey. Engineering firm NG Bailey is set to launch a review into the future of grouse shooting on Denton Moor, as part of a wider drive to increase environmental conservation within […]

Yorkshire Water has ordered removal of fox snares and a ‘stink pit’ from beauty spots leased for grouse shooting across the region. Yorkshire Water has ordered removal of fox snares and a ‘stink pit’ – a heap of rotting carcasses of wild animals, aimed at enticing opportunistic mammals in to their […]

Yorkshire Water – one of the region’s largest landowners – is being urged to stop leasing land for grouse shooting, following the discovery of snares at three popular moorland beauty spots across West and North Yorkshire. Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors (BBYM) visited land let by the utility company at Haworth […]