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Scottish Gamekeepers Association Chairman, Alex Hogg, has written the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, warning of the dire...

There is a scene in a recent David Attenborough film where all sorts of predatory fish, birds and mammals hurl themselves at luckless...

The levels of mistrust between those who work in the uplands and certain conservation groups has never been greater, largely due to...

RSPB decided some time ago to be a universal conservation organisation dealing with anything, anywhere, and not just birds and not just...

Criminal records amongst animal rights activists is something the public have largely come to expect. Luke Steele, the leader of a group...

On Wednesday, a wildfire broke out on Marsden Moor near Saddleworth Moor. Saddleworth, of course, was the location of a particularly...

The news that the Curlew Recovery Project will not be run by the RSPB has been greeted with relief in many quarters. That the RSPB had...

In a week where three wildfires have broken out in the Peak District on moorland not managed by controlled burning, Dr Pat Thompson, the...

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...

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...

[© Facebook/Slaithwaite Fire station] This week scientists from the University of Reading warned that ‘once-in-a-century’ weather...

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

With a loosening of the lockdown rules on the horizon and the weather improving, increasing numbers of people will be out and about on...

Last week, the RSPB joined forces with the Forestry Commission, the National Trust and the team from Exeter University wildFIRE Lab under...

[The attached photo in Australia is of a white-bellied sea eagle, a different variety to that being proposed to be released in Norfolk,...

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...

[Duke of Sussex wearing Patagonia down jacket] The Moorland Monitors released an extraordinary statement last month attempting to...

Another huge wildfire has broken out on Dartmoor in Devon which has illuminated the sky for miles and caused widespread destruction. As...

We recently pointed out that the RSPB managed scheme to eradicate stoats from Orkney was considered by many discerning Orcadians as...

When the new legislation on moorland burning was announced last week, most headlines tended towards the dramatic. “Ban of heather burning...