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BrewDog will restore a former grouse moor in the race to reach net-zero

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June 12, 2021
10:26 am
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BrewDog has bought a 9,000 acre former grouse moor in the Cairngorms in a bid to reduce the craft beer producer’s carbon footprint. The multinational brewery and pub chain has purchased the Kinrara Estate and unveiled plans for its Lost Forest, a programme of landscape regeneration which involves rewetting carbon-rich peatlands [...]

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Scotland commits to introducing grouse moor licensing

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June 12, 2021
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The SNP has pledged to introduce grouse moor licensing in Scotland to strengthen wild animal welfare and restore the nation’s vast upland landscape.

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Restoration begins to make Ilkley Moor a wilder moor

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June 12, 2021
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Bradford Council has kick-started a conservation drive to restore wildlife habitats on the world-famous Ilkley Moor.

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Government unveils tougher rules on grouse moor burning

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June 12, 2021
10:24 am
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Burning heather on fragile blanket bog is set to be restricted on northern England’s grouse moors under new legislation announced by the Government today. The tighter rules will mean that grouse moors will no longer be allowed to routinely set fire to heather, to engineer game bird breeding habitat, on some of the […]

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Yorkshire MPs take the battle to ban grouse moor burning to Westminster

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June 12, 2021
10:13 am
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Three Yorkshire MPs are taking the battle to save the county’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting to Westminster today. Stephanie Peacock (Shadow Flooding Minister and Barnsley East), Olivia Blake (Sheffield Hallam) and Rachel Maskell (York Central) will tell a debate in Westminster Hall that a promised ban on […]