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The news of Wild Justice’s case against Defra had been looming for some time now: ever since Chris Packham and his chums announced their...

Over the next couple of weeks, curlew will be returning to the UK’s uplands and moorlands, where they breed before spending spring and...

The floods that a sequence of storms – Ciara, quickly followed by Dennis – brought with them have ravaged much of the country. Houses...

Controlled burning is essential not just for preventing wild fires but to protect the wildlife and communities that thrive on our...

Although Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle has been a big talking point this week, the big headlines were all about Sajid Javid's...

Adrian Blackmore is director of shooting at the Countryside Alliance. THE Government’s intention to end controlled burning on blanket bog...

A recent poll by YouGov found that 82% of Britons are in favour of reintroducing species that are extinct in Britain. 36% of people...

A group of leading rural organisations has issued a joint statement condemning raptor persecution and calling for a ‘zero tolerance’...

Last week the Scottish Parliament’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee sat down in an evidence session to review the...

In an article for the Big Issue North yesterday, former Sunday Times journalist Roger Ratcliffe became the latest in a long line of...

Listeners to BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show may have been fortunate enough to hear farmer and author Jamie Blackett discussing the...

Who is to blame for the bushfires in Australia? When a crisis such as the ongoing one in New South Wales happens, people are desperate...

With a new television programme out on Friday about his love of punk rock, BBC presenter and ‘naturalist’ Chris Packham has been giving...

Britain’s supermarkets are chock-full with ready meals. An estimated 3.5million of them fly off the shelves every day, and we spend...

Chris Packham has backed two Westminster petitions to end grouse shooting and they say he is on a 'relentless drive' to wreck their...

The dust has finally settled on perhaps the most climactic election in recent memory, with the Conservatives securing a majority of 78...

The Scottish Government’s report into the management of grouse moors is now eight months overdue, and its constant delays are fostering...

At the end of October Ruth George, at the time the MP for High Peak, made a statement in the Commons at the second reading of the...

This election, everyone is talking about trees. The Conservatives have promised 30 million trees a year for five years. The Lib Dems...

There are a number of regional moorland groups across England and Scotland, from the Peak District Moorland Group, to the Loch Ness Rural...