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Robert Goodwill MP: Why grouse shooting matters for moorland communities
Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitney, has written an editorial on the Conservative Home website today, and you might see...
Aug 12, 2020


RSPB accused of ‘suppressing’ Peak District bird data showing dramatic increases across all species
[Curlew nest on managed moorland] In March 2019 the Ecologist magazine carried an article based on interviews with two people in the...
Aug 11, 2020


The RSPB have spent millions of public money on the Lake Vyrnwy reserve, yet wildlife has plummeted
[Can anyone see any wildlife in this photo?] Last year the RSPB’s income stood at £142.6 million. That amount was made up from a...
Aug 11, 2020


Mental well-being boost for moorland communities
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated communities across the UK, particularly those reliant on seasonal tourism. Businesses in rural...
Aug 7, 2020


Grouse shooting essential for the survival of Moorland Communities, new study finds
University of Northampton researchers conduct wide-ranging survey into economic and social effects of the sport on moorland communities...
Aug 7, 2020


About C4PMC
The Campaign for the Protection of Moorland Communities (C4PMC) was founded in October 2019 in response to continued aggression,...
Aug 7, 2020


Anti-DGS campaigners 'get weirder by the day' as they go dancing on a Lancashire grouse moor
A new video has been released by anti-grouse shooting campaigners, showing them dancing on moorland owned by the Grosvenor Estate in...
Aug 4, 2020


Raptor Celebration Day - 8th August
Despite what many ardent anti-grouse shooting campaigners would have you believe, the UK’s bird of prey population is booming. This is...
Aug 3, 2020


The fracking hypocrisy of Mark Avery and the anti-DGS campaigners
Recent polling across the UK confirms, as was suspected, that 99.37% of the population have no opinion one way or the other on driven...
Jul 30, 2020


How the RSPB sabotaged plans to reintroduce the hen harrier to southern England
What a very strange world we live in. As we all know, the hen harrier is the one bird of prey most revered by Chris Packham fans and the...
Jul 27, 2020


Moorland management on blanket bogs: Is there a one-size fits all solution?
Dr Andreas Heinemeyer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and he is currently in the final stretch of a...
Jul 24, 2020


Will the fake news ever stop?
Image: Richard Walker Last week, we reported on Tim Birch, the Extinction Rebellion supporter and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s...
Jul 21, 2020


Moorland peatland restoration project reduces carbon emissions on areas of bare peat by 60%
Across the UK's uplands significant work has been going on to restore peatland. There are few better examples of this peatland...
Jul 17, 2020


Wildlife experts distance themselves from XR’s Tim Birch’s ‘ludicrous’ attack against gamekeepers
[A Bearded Vulture similar to the one spotted this week in the Peak District] This week saw the surprise arrival of a Lammergeier, also...
Jul 16, 2020


Mark Avery dismisses holidays in the North of England as an ‘unattractive prospect’
[There are few pleasures in life nicer than visiting our moorlands] At a time of unprecedented economic crisis, rural England needs all...
Jul 15, 2020


We all need to highlight the common ground between the shooting community and the RSPB
The RSPB are currently in the process of conducting a review into gamebird shooting – with particular focus on driven grouse shooting....
Jul 14, 2020


Packham and Avery’s petition against DGS littered with foreign signatories
Mark Avery gets very excited about petitions. They bring him out in a frenzied state of uncontrollable excitement like an overgrown child...
Jul 7, 2020


Fanatics trying to stop controlled burning will cost lives, following dire warning from firefighters
For thousands of years, humans have been using controlled burning as an essential, indeed life-saving, technique for firefighters and...
Jul 6, 2020


RSPB’s political wing hijacked by left-wing extremist, Adam Barnett, and helped by Kerry McCarthy MP
Across the UK there is growing anger towards public bodies, executive and authorities that have assumed unelected responsibility for...
Jul 3, 2020


Avery's hypocrisy causing supporters to 'lose faith'
Mark Avery does not look like a man who spreads anything too thinly when it comes to his breakfast – but many of his own supporters are...
Jul 1, 2020
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