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Mountain hares are delightful animals. They are our only native Lagomorph. The others, brown hares and rabbits are both introduced...

Rural organisations have welcomed the news that Defra is ready to fight Wild Justice’s latest legal challenge in relation to the General...

Over the last few days, a number of articles in The Times newspaper as part of a report called ‘A wilder world’. They have covered a wide...

As the upcoming bird breeding season gets underway, the RSPB have launched a new campaign to help protect rare breeding wildlife - 'Watch...

The situation in Ukraine is at the forefront of many people’s minds, and certainly it’s a topic that’s unavoidable when reading the...

(Wildfires are not only dangerous for humans, animals and moorland health, but also emit billions of tonnes of carbon globally, on an...

Land with potential for tree planting is becoming increasingly expensive up and down the UK, as carbon offsetting becomes increasingly...

When we think of people working in our uplands, the image that generally springs to mind is that of male gamekeepers, working from the...

Serious questions were raised last night in parliament by former soldier and Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, on legal firm, Matrix Chambers,...

The latest UN warnings on climate change confirm what many of us already knew only too well: wildfires are becoming increasingly common...

We are sure that readers of this blog will not need to be made aware of the fact that there is conflict, in the uplands, between...

Time and time again we hear the same refrain from the anti-shooting fraternity: that grouse moors and the way they are managed results in...

British settlers who colonised Australia in the 1700s are, apparently, to blame for recent bushfires in the country. That, at least, was...

[Chris Packham's article in The Sun, which also misidentifies the bird in question] Chris Packham is branching out beyond his traditional...

When hysteria meets cold factual reality, there is always a sense of indignation. But rarely more so than when that hysteria comes from...

A new study carried out by GWCT has shown that, despite previous reports to the contrary, England's only population of mountain hares is...

Last week, the Yorkshire Post and other titled reported that the RSPB was urging its members to report incidences of heather burning,...

The latest series of Winterwatch, filmed at Norfolk’s Ken Hill Estate, is over and it is fair to say once again our friend Chris Packham...

Peatland preservation is a topic that we often discuss on these pages; after all, although it may currently be a fashionable topic with...

The mental health benefits of spending time outdoors is something that has been well documented over the years, and has become even more...