Moorland Association
@moorlandassoc.bsky.social
Moorland Association members are passionate in their care for 860,000 acres of heather moorland in England and Wales.
🔥 Why Science Supports Controlled Burning: Our Response to the Doncaster Free Press
• Cool burns reduce fuel loads
• They protect peat
• They are backed by the G7, EU and US
• Managed burns cause <5% of UK wildfires
Read our full response - link is in replies 👇
• Cool burns reduce fuel loads
• They protect peat
• They are backed by the G7, EU and US
• Managed burns cause <5% of UK wildfires
Read our full response - link is in replies 👇
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔥 Why Science Supports Controlled Burning: Our Response to the Doncaster Free Press
• Cool burns reduce fuel loads
• They protect peat
• They are backed by the G7, EU and US
• Managed burns cause <5% of UK wildfires
Read our full response - link is in replies 👇
• Cool burns reduce fuel loads
• They protect peat
• They are backed by the G7, EU and US
• Managed burns cause <5% of UK wildfires
Read our full response - link is in replies 👇
📧 This recently circulated internal Natural England email appears to caution staff against engaging substantively with external queries about wildfire risk and land-management techniques. Read more - link is in replies 👇
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📧 This recently circulated internal Natural England email appears to caution staff against engaging substantively with external queries about wildfire risk and land-management techniques. Read more - link is in replies 👇
📷 Courtesy of Peak District Moorland Group.
Snow has paused vegetation management on the high tops, but keepers & rural workers are still out doing their jobs. With roads closing and vehicles getting stuck, access is tough enough already. Please respect those working in our uplands.
Snow has paused vegetation management on the high tops, but keepers & rural workers are still out doing their jobs. With roads closing and vehicles getting stuck, access is tough enough already. Please respect those working in our uplands.
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📷 Courtesy of Peak District Moorland Group.
Snow has paused vegetation management on the high tops, but keepers & rural workers are still out doing their jobs. With roads closing and vehicles getting stuck, access is tough enough already. Please respect those working in our uplands.
Snow has paused vegetation management on the high tops, but keepers & rural workers are still out doing their jobs. With roads closing and vehicles getting stuck, access is tough enough already. Please respect those working in our uplands.
✍️ Why Science Supports Controlled Burning - Our Response to the Doncaster Free Press: www.moorlandassociation.org/post/why-sci...
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
✍️ Why Science Supports Controlled Burning - Our Response to the Doncaster Free Press: www.moorlandassociation.org/post/why-sci...
🪶 Stewards of the Moors: 4 Proven Conservation Success Stories
These stories show what real stewardship looks like: practical work, long-term commitment and people who know the ground. Integrated management delivers for nature and communities.
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These stories show what real stewardship looks like: practical work, long-term commitment and people who know the ground. Integrated management delivers for nature and communities.
Read more - link in replies 👇
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🪶 Stewards of the Moors: 4 Proven Conservation Success Stories
These stories show what real stewardship looks like: practical work, long-term commitment and people who know the ground. Integrated management delivers for nature and communities.
Read more - link in replies 👇
These stories show what real stewardship looks like: practical work, long-term commitment and people who know the ground. Integrated management delivers for nature and communities.
Read more - link in replies 👇
🗺️ This map compares the scale of this year's Langdale wildfire in the North York Moors (black line) with the area burnt during the Great Fire of London (blue line). Approximately 5,000 acres were burned at Langdale, costing around £50m.
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🗺️ This map compares the scale of this year's Langdale wildfire in the North York Moors (black line) with the area burnt during the Great Fire of London (blue line). Approximately 5,000 acres were burned at Langdale, costing around £50m.
🔥 Brazil’s Cerrado banned all controlled burning - and paid the price.
Wildfires doubled. Fuel loads soared. Now, with controlled burns restored, fire intensity has fallen 97%.
Practical land stewardship and traditional knowledge working together. Read more - link is in comments 👇
Wildfires doubled. Fuel loads soared. Now, with controlled burns restored, fire intensity has fallen 97%.
Practical land stewardship and traditional knowledge working together. Read more - link is in comments 👇
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🔥 Brazil’s Cerrado banned all controlled burning - and paid the price.
Wildfires doubled. Fuel loads soared. Now, with controlled burns restored, fire intensity has fallen 97%.
Practical land stewardship and traditional knowledge working together. Read more - link is in comments 👇
Wildfires doubled. Fuel loads soared. Now, with controlled burns restored, fire intensity has fallen 97%.
Practical land stewardship and traditional knowledge working together. Read more - link is in comments 👇
Most curlew move to the coast in cold weather - but this inland flock stays on managed moors and nearby pastures.
Curlew numbers have fallen sharply across the UK, yet some Yorkshire Dales estates hold 180–250 breeding pairs each.
Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group.
Curlew numbers have fallen sharply across the UK, yet some Yorkshire Dales estates hold 180–250 breeding pairs each.
Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Most curlew move to the coast in cold weather - but this inland flock stays on managed moors and nearby pastures.
Curlew numbers have fallen sharply across the UK, yet some Yorkshire Dales estates hold 180–250 breeding pairs each.
Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group.
Curlew numbers have fallen sharply across the UK, yet some Yorkshire Dales estates hold 180–250 breeding pairs each.
Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group.
🔥 The RSPB told the government not to learn from countries already hit hard by wildfires, claiming our landscapes are “too different”.
But fire physics don’t stop at the Channel. Evidence proves international lessons matter. Ignoring it risks repeating others’ mistakes.
Link is in replies 👇
But fire physics don’t stop at the Channel. Evidence proves international lessons matter. Ignoring it risks repeating others’ mistakes.
Link is in replies 👇
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🔥 The RSPB told the government not to learn from countries already hit hard by wildfires, claiming our landscapes are “too different”.
But fire physics don’t stop at the Channel. Evidence proves international lessons matter. Ignoring it risks repeating others’ mistakes.
Link is in replies 👇
But fire physics don’t stop at the Channel. Evidence proves international lessons matter. Ignoring it risks repeating others’ mistakes.
Link is in replies 👇
🔥 @rspb.bsky.social says Britain has nothing to learn from countries battling mega-fires - but can we really afford to ignore global wildfire science?
Read our latest blog - www.moorlandassociation.org/post/rspb-wi...
Read our latest blog - www.moorlandassociation.org/post/rspb-wi...
RSPB Wildfire Policy: “Don’t Look Abroad”
RSPB’s claim that UK wildfire lessons can’t be learned from abroad ignores global evidence. Experts warn this stance risks leaving our landscapes unprepared.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔥 @rspb.bsky.social says Britain has nothing to learn from countries battling mega-fires - but can we really afford to ignore global wildfire science?
Read our latest blog - www.moorlandassociation.org/post/rspb-wi...
Read our latest blog - www.moorlandassociation.org/post/rspb-wi...
🎞️ Watch Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity Jim Fairlie MSP tell the Scottish Parliament that responsible controlled burning helps prevent and fight wildfire.
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🎞️ Watch Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity Jim Fairlie MSP tell the Scottish Parliament that responsible controlled burning helps prevent and fight wildfire.
🌿 National Parks were founded to protect nature and the people who sustain it. But some are now forgetting that second purpose entirely.
Our latest blog explores how keepers, graziers and rural families remain central to the future of these living landscapes.
Read more - link is in comments 👇
Our latest blog explores how keepers, graziers and rural families remain central to the future of these living landscapes.
Read more - link is in comments 👇
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🌿 National Parks were founded to protect nature and the people who sustain it. But some are now forgetting that second purpose entirely.
Our latest blog explores how keepers, graziers and rural families remain central to the future of these living landscapes.
Read more - link is in comments 👇
Our latest blog explores how keepers, graziers and rural families remain central to the future of these living landscapes.
Read more - link is in comments 👇
👮 Wildfire costs this year have reached £460m - the price of 14,760 new police officers protecting our communities.
New controlled burning restrictions have just increased the risk of more wildfires in the future, leading to yet more senseless waste.
New controlled burning restrictions have just increased the risk of more wildfires in the future, leading to yet more senseless waste.
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
👮 Wildfire costs this year have reached £460m - the price of 14,760 new police officers protecting our communities.
New controlled burning restrictions have just increased the risk of more wildfires in the future, leading to yet more senseless waste.
New controlled burning restrictions have just increased the risk of more wildfires in the future, leading to yet more senseless waste.
🔥 A Fire Chief’s Perspective: Why Controlled Burning is Essential for Wildfire Prevention
Scottish Fire & Rescue wildfire lead Bruce Farquharson explains why burning is vital - reducing fuel loads, protecting peat and helping firefighters tackle blazes.
Read more - link is in replies 👇
Scottish Fire & Rescue wildfire lead Bruce Farquharson explains why burning is vital - reducing fuel loads, protecting peat and helping firefighters tackle blazes.
Read more - link is in replies 👇
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🔥 A Fire Chief’s Perspective: Why Controlled Burning is Essential for Wildfire Prevention
Scottish Fire & Rescue wildfire lead Bruce Farquharson explains why burning is vital - reducing fuel loads, protecting peat and helping firefighters tackle blazes.
Read more - link is in replies 👇
Scottish Fire & Rescue wildfire lead Bruce Farquharson explains why burning is vital - reducing fuel loads, protecting peat and helping firefighters tackle blazes.
Read more - link is in replies 👇
📉 New research reveals that stopping traditional moorland management while climate change accelerates could devastate populations of iconic upland birds.
Link to summary of study is in replies 👇
Link to summary of study is in replies 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📉 New research reveals that stopping traditional moorland management while climate change accelerates could devastate populations of iconic upland birds.
Link to summary of study is in replies 👇
Link to summary of study is in replies 👇
🦅 New Wildlife Crime Report Shows Record Low for Bird of Prey Crime
✅ Incidents down from 216 in 2017 to 152 in 2024
🤝 Collaboration, gamekeeping, and habitat management key to progress
🏞️ Over 80% of successful hen harrier nests now on grouse moors
✅ Incidents down from 216 in 2017 to 152 in 2024
🤝 Collaboration, gamekeeping, and habitat management key to progress
🏞️ Over 80% of successful hen harrier nests now on grouse moors
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🦅 New Wildlife Crime Report Shows Record Low for Bird of Prey Crime
✅ Incidents down from 216 in 2017 to 152 in 2024
🤝 Collaboration, gamekeeping, and habitat management key to progress
🏞️ Over 80% of successful hen harrier nests now on grouse moors
✅ Incidents down from 216 in 2017 to 152 in 2024
🤝 Collaboration, gamekeeping, and habitat management key to progress
🏞️ Over 80% of successful hen harrier nests now on grouse moors
🐦 Scientists Warn: Ending Grouse Moor Management Could Accelerate Bird Declines
Red grouse numbers may drop by up to 80% under climate change if management stops. Adaptive, evidence-based management is crucial for species survival.
Read the full story on our website - link is in comments 👇
Red grouse numbers may drop by up to 80% under climate change if management stops. Adaptive, evidence-based management is crucial for species survival.
Read the full story on our website - link is in comments 👇
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🐦 Scientists Warn: Ending Grouse Moor Management Could Accelerate Bird Declines
Red grouse numbers may drop by up to 80% under climate change if management stops. Adaptive, evidence-based management is crucial for species survival.
Read the full story on our website - link is in comments 👇
Red grouse numbers may drop by up to 80% under climate change if management stops. Adaptive, evidence-based management is crucial for species survival.
Read the full story on our website - link is in comments 👇
🐦 Job Opportunity: JM Osborne Rural & Sporting are recruiting for an exceptional Headkeeper and Underkeeper at a wild Spanish partridge project located in the north of Spain.
See the full details:
jmosborne.co.uk/situations-v...
See the full details:
jmosborne.co.uk/situations-v...
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🐦 Job Opportunity: JM Osborne Rural & Sporting are recruiting for an exceptional Headkeeper and Underkeeper at a wild Spanish partridge project located in the north of Spain.
See the full details:
jmosborne.co.uk/situations-v...
See the full details:
jmosborne.co.uk/situations-v...
🔥 A new wildfire study featuring interviews with professionals from the Fire & Rescue Service, government departments, landowners and academics reveals a system described by participants as “fragmented”, “reactive” and “underfunded.”
Find out more - link is in replies 👇
Find out more - link is in replies 👇
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🔥 A new wildfire study featuring interviews with professionals from the Fire & Rescue Service, government departments, landowners and academics reveals a system described by participants as “fragmented”, “reactive” and “underfunded.”
Find out more - link is in replies 👇
Find out more - link is in replies 👇
🦅 England’s hen harrier population has reached its highest level in 200 years - from 0 nests in 2013 to 141 fledged chicks in 2023.
80% of those nests are on managed grouse moors, showing that partnership, not conflict, delivers results.
Read our FAQs - link is in replies 👇
80% of those nests are on managed grouse moors, showing that partnership, not conflict, delivers results.
Read our FAQs - link is in replies 👇
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
🦅 England’s hen harrier population has reached its highest level in 200 years - from 0 nests in 2013 to 141 fledged chicks in 2023.
80% of those nests are on managed grouse moors, showing that partnership, not conflict, delivers results.
Read our FAQs - link is in replies 👇
80% of those nests are on managed grouse moors, showing that partnership, not conflict, delivers results.
Read our FAQs - link is in replies 👇
📷 Courtesy of Peak District Moorland Group.
Yet again Dark Peak moorland gamekeepers lent a hand with setting up the Remembrance Day walk and tea and coffee stop, to the “Pots and Pans’ monument with Upperwood Estate and the Royal British Legion.
Yet again Dark Peak moorland gamekeepers lent a hand with setting up the Remembrance Day walk and tea and coffee stop, to the “Pots and Pans’ monument with Upperwood Estate and the Royal British Legion.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
📷 Courtesy of Peak District Moorland Group.
Yet again Dark Peak moorland gamekeepers lent a hand with setting up the Remembrance Day walk and tea and coffee stop, to the “Pots and Pans’ monument with Upperwood Estate and the Royal British Legion.
Yet again Dark Peak moorland gamekeepers lent a hand with setting up the Remembrance Day walk and tea and coffee stop, to the “Pots and Pans’ monument with Upperwood Estate and the Royal British Legion.
🔥 Who’s in Charge? New Study Exposes Chaos in UK Wildfire Policy
The system is “fragmented, reactive and underfunded.” With wildfire costs topping £460m in 2025, the UK’s approach is failing.
We need joined-up leadership, not confusion.
Read our summary, link is in replies 👇
The system is “fragmented, reactive and underfunded.” With wildfire costs topping £460m in 2025, the UK’s approach is failing.
We need joined-up leadership, not confusion.
Read our summary, link is in replies 👇
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🔥 Who’s in Charge? New Study Exposes Chaos in UK Wildfire Policy
The system is “fragmented, reactive and underfunded.” With wildfire costs topping £460m in 2025, the UK’s approach is failing.
We need joined-up leadership, not confusion.
Read our summary, link is in replies 👇
The system is “fragmented, reactive and underfunded.” With wildfire costs topping £460m in 2025, the UK’s approach is failing.
We need joined-up leadership, not confusion.
Read our summary, link is in replies 👇
👏 A remarkable conservation effort in action.
Keepers from the North Pennines have helped move Black Grouse from thriving local populations to the North York Moors, boosting numbers and ensuring the species’ future.
🐦 Care, skill, and teamwork at its best.
Keepers from the North Pennines have helped move Black Grouse from thriving local populations to the North York Moors, boosting numbers and ensuring the species’ future.
🐦 Care, skill, and teamwork at its best.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
👏 A remarkable conservation effort in action.
Keepers from the North Pennines have helped move Black Grouse from thriving local populations to the North York Moors, boosting numbers and ensuring the species’ future.
🐦 Care, skill, and teamwork at its best.
Keepers from the North Pennines have helped move Black Grouse from thriving local populations to the North York Moors, boosting numbers and ensuring the species’ future.
🐦 Care, skill, and teamwork at its best.
🔥 A new global report highlights that controlled burning is essential for preventing catastrophic wildfires.
Not all fire is destructive - when managed with knowledge and care, it protects landscapes, wildlife, and rural communities.
Read our summary of the report. Link is in comments 👇
Not all fire is destructive - when managed with knowledge and care, it protects landscapes, wildlife, and rural communities.
Read our summary of the report. Link is in comments 👇
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
🔥 A new global report highlights that controlled burning is essential for preventing catastrophic wildfires.
Not all fire is destructive - when managed with knowledge and care, it protects landscapes, wildlife, and rural communities.
Read our summary of the report. Link is in comments 👇
Not all fire is destructive - when managed with knowledge and care, it protects landscapes, wildlife, and rural communities.
Read our summary of the report. Link is in comments 👇
🎞️ Video of black grouse captured yesterday evening by the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. It is now virtually impossible to find these gamebirds anywhere other than on, or adjacent to, managed estates, thanks to the measured predator control practiced by gamekeepers.
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🎞️ Video of black grouse captured yesterday evening by the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. It is now virtually impossible to find these gamebirds anywhere other than on, or adjacent to, managed estates, thanks to the measured predator control practiced by gamekeepers.