Moorland

Controlled burning

In an open letter to the RSPB chair, BASC calls out the RSPB’s “increasingly negative” public attitude towards sustainable shooting.

Transport yourself to stunning Calderdale with the Moorland Chorus, capturing the sounds of dawn breaking on grouse moor teeming with life.

This year’s Let’s Learn Moor starts on Monday 5 July, running across nine venues and welcoming more than 2,000 primary school children throughout the week.

The RSPB have used the recent wildfire in Northern Ireland’s Mourne mountains as a platform to call for a ban on controlled burning.

A worker doing controlled burning

Government announcement on heather burning offers promise of licences as consequences of a blanket ban recognised.