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How Chris Packham, RSPB and DWT pushed "shameful nonsense" about mountain hares on grouse moors
Rarely, if ever, has there been has a species been used to perform a confidence trick as profound as the one perpetrated on the back of...
Mar 29, 2021


Welcome back to the uplands – please remember the Countryside Code
Monday 29th March is an important date for most of us, as it signals a light at the end of the tunnel, with the first easing of lockdown...
Mar 26, 2021


Huge wildfire breaks out on National Trust moorland on which no controlled burning took place
[© Facebook/Slaithwaite Fire station] This week scientists from the University of Reading warned that ‘once-in-a-century’ weather...
Mar 25, 2021


We stand with Scotland's rural workers
Today, 19th March, Scotland’s rural workers are staging a mass online protest, letting the Scottish Government know how they feel about...
Mar 19, 2021


Activists 'waste emergency services time' after calling out fire brigade for controlled burning
With a loosening of the lockdown rules on the horizon and the weather improving, increasing numbers of people will be out and about on...
Mar 16, 2021


RSPB join forces to carry out Muirburn research, despite campaigning against its use
Last week, the RSPB joined forces with the Forestry Commission, the National Trust and the team from Exeter University wildFIRE Lab under...
Mar 11, 2021


Local communities express deep concern over plans to introduce Sea Eagles in East Anglia
[The attached photo in Australia is of a white-bellied sea eagle, a different variety to that being proposed to be released in Norfolk,...
Mar 9, 2021


How Bob Berzins and the Moorland Monitors are 'damaging UK conservation efforts'
Over the weekend the Moorland Monitors released an image to the Derbyshire Times of a dead stoat that had been killed in a legally set...
Mar 2, 2021


Oh what a tangled web is weaved - Patagonia, Moorland Monitors and the RSPB
[Duke of Sussex wearing Patagonia down jacket] The Moorland Monitors released an extraordinary statement last month attempting to...
Feb 22, 2021


How many more wildfires does it need before people recognise necessity of controlled burning?
Another huge wildfire has broken out on Dartmoor in Devon which has illuminated the sky for miles and caused widespread destruction. As...
Feb 12, 2021


Martin Harper, the EU Life Fund, and the indiscriminate killing of pet cats
We recently pointed out that the RSPB managed scheme to eradicate stoats from Orkney was considered by many discerning Orcadians as...
Feb 8, 2021


The truth about cool burns and healthy moors
When the new legislation on moorland burning was announced last week, most headlines tended towards the dramatic. “Ban of heather burning...
Feb 7, 2021


Bob Berzins' latest book presentation 'full of lies and slanders' against moorland management
We've written about Bob Berzins before on these pages. He's an activist and spokesperson for the Moorland Monitors. It should be no...
Feb 2, 2021


Government recognises necessity of heather burning as an essential tool for moorland management
The Government announced last week that it is committed to restoring England’s peatlands and outlined new legislation requiring moorland...
Feb 1, 2021


Yorkshire Dales voted 'top European National Park' with Peak District 4th - yet Kevin Cox disagrees
We need to talk about Kevin - Kevin Cox that is, Chairman of the RSPB. On the 3rd March 2019 the Ecologist magazine carried an article...
Jan 28, 2021


RSPB received £25m in public grants last year, yet they won't release their bird data - wonder why?
[RSPB's lavish headquarters] Let us return to the RSPB's article which seeks to explain to its own members why they think shooting game...
Jan 26, 2021


Moorland councillor allows his personal prejudices to influence his voting
At the beginning of January, members of the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council put forward a motion to ‘ask the government to...
Jan 25, 2021


Moorland Monitors 'Pretend to Distance Themselves' from Luke Steele after threat to funding
The Moorland Monitors today released an extraordinary statement on their website distancing themselves from the horrible criminal, Luke...
Jan 22, 2021


Wind farms killing '20 times more eagles than previously thought', yet RSPB turn blind eye.
Wind turbines are slaughtering millions of birds and bats annually, according to the latest research by a charity group in America that...
Jan 22, 2021


RSPB's policy on controlled burning is 'a tale told by an idiot'
[Wildfire on moorland not managed by controlled heather burning] When Shakespeare gave Macbeth his last words, in the 'Tomorrow and...
Jan 20, 2021
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