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Natural England upland adviser Sara Barrett continues to lecture wildfire practitioners with 'fantasy rewetting policy', even as new fires rage across Peak District.
2025 has already proven to be the worst for UK wildfires in recent times, according to satellite data from Global Wildfire Information...
2 hours ago
The strange case of Natural England and the Hen Harrier conservation licence
The Moorland Association have announced that their application to Natural England for a Hen Harrier conservation licence has ultimately...
Apr 15
Packham and the Paedophile
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, and few people keep worse company than Chris Packham.  Last week...
Apr 8
BBC interview allows Wildlife Trusts Director to spout total untruths, yet goes unchallenged
The government's proposed extension to the current legislation on heather burning which would further restrict land managers’ and...
Apr 3
What is it about wildfires that they don't get?
We have been blessed with a dry spring – the first one for 3 years. Unfortunately, every silver lining has a cloud and in the uplands,...
Apr 2
National Trust face the consequences of yet another wildfire on Marsden Moor. Why do they never learn?
Damage caused by the fire Credit:NQ When wildfire broke out on Marsden Moor for the umpteenth time last week, many locals looked on in...
Mar 26
Wild Justice supporters turn on Ruth Tingay and Chris Packham after ‘disgusting’ hate speech video depicting Yorkshire gamekeeper. Police now expected to take 'appropriate action'.
When Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay launched their latest video, ‘Glenn Massacre’ , the ideological bile that drives their existence was...
Mar 19
Moorland group warns of landscape-scale wildfires risk
Farmers Weekly today reported the concerns being raised by Regional Moorland Groups of the wide scale wildfire risk faced in the uplands....
Mar 12
Wildfire hits the Peak District on 'rewetted' land, proving once again there is no substitute for removing surface vegetation.
Across the country people have been cheering what has been reported as ‘the first signs of spring’. And yet, after just a few days of...
Mar 5
The rewilders cry wolf
There are lots of wolves in fairy tales. The Three Little Pigs, Peter and the Wolf, Red Riding Hood and so on. In these stories, our...
Mar 4
How the RSPB’s attitude to moorland management has changed over the years
This RSPB manual from the 1990s was recently found in a library. As you can see, the copy runs as follows: Â Grouse moor, Strathdon,...
Feb 21
Are the RSPB being disingenuous with their claims about their Geltsdale 'paradise for nature'?
Are the RSPB being disingenuous with their claims about their Geltsdale reserve? The charity have been busy this week, promoting their...
Feb 14
Countryfile Endorses Predator Control to Protect Rare Waders
Following last week’s endorsement of controlled burning  to protect heather moorland in the New Forest, the BBC’s Countryfile has once...
Feb 3
RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands receives yet more backlash amid mismanagement claims
The RSPB’s Burton Mere Wetlands site, in Cheshire, attracted attention online when they announced that, due to “a period of ongoing short...
Feb 3
New Forest Head Agister Praises Controlled Burning on Heather Moorland
The head agister of the New Forest commoners has praised the role of controlled burning in preventing wildfires at the national park,...
Jan 28
Children left with blood running down their faces after gull attacks, following Wild Justice campaign to limit ability to control bird numbers.
© SWNS Conservation body NatureScot has said it is happy to discuss what gull management measures can be taken after reports of children...
Jan 23
Government dismiss Wild Justice’s latest tendentious efforts to ban driven grouse shootingÂ
Ruth Tingay is full of her usual bile in response to the Labour Government throwing out Wild Justice’s latest petition. In response to...
Jan 20
Big cats on the run in the Highlands
Late yesterday evening, a buzz began to stir on social media and messaging platforms. The rumour was that two Eurasian Lynx had been...
Jan 9
No one told the joyless trio at Wild Justice that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Chris Packham and his Wild Justice pals have launched an online petition to ban driven grouse shooting, for the third time in recent...
Jan 7
24 Dec - RSPB’s Head of Scottish Investigations makes more mad claims on recent SOC webinar including beaters marching with drums and inflating bag sizes by 83,233% - all in the name of raising funds.
The RSPB’s Head of Scottish Investigations, Ian Thomson, seems to have lost all perspective of reality. Perhaps he never had it.  ...
Dec 24, 2024
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