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 […]
Wakefield Council’s leadership backs a ban on grouse moor burning
Wakefield Council’s leadership has joined the battle to save the county’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. The local authority’s leadership has called on the government to urgently deliver a ban on moorland burning, an ecologically-destructive practice that involves shoot operators setting fire to heather to engineer habitat for […]
Councils urged to back a ban on grouse moor burning
Yorkshire’s councils are being urged to join the battle to save the county’s peat moors from being damaged for grouse shooting. In a letter sent to council leaders, Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors has sought support from local authorities for a ban on moorland burning, an ecologically-destructive practice that involves shoot […]
Grouse moor burning season closes with prospect of ban
New figures showing the shocking scale of grouse moor burning across Yorkshire have been released by a wildlife organisation as the season officially closes today. Wild Moors has compiled more than 550 reports of the county’s heather moorland being burnt — an ecologically-destructive practice performed to engineer habitat for grouse which […]