Let's Learn Moor
Let’s Learn Moor: tick mops and a famous ferret
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty reflects on a standout first day of Let’s Learn Moor 2021 from North York Moors National Park
Offbeat
Five years on: the landslide grouse debate
Five years on from the last parliamentary debate on driven grouse shooting, yesterday’s Westminster debate was a showcase for the work being undertaken by landowners and gamekeepers, writes Gareth Dockerty.
Conservation
Leave your BBQ at home
Our wildlife-rich uplands are especially at risk of wildfires at this time of year says BASC’s Gareth Dockerty.
Conservation
Positive impacts of burning recognised by Government
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty unravels what the government’s announcement on burning actually means and organisation’s work behind the scenes to ensure evidence-led policy.
Offbeat
Green Party upland policy cut down to size
Green Party parliamentary questions on afforestation have accidently chopped down their own uplands policy, BASC research finds.
Offbeat
Fact-checking wildfire statistics
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty undertakes some fact checking following a potentially damaging statistic was highlighted in the recent Westminster moorland burning debate.
Conservation
Still the ‘burning topic’
Gareth Dockerty looks at the latest Westminster debate covering moorland burning.
Offbeat
50 walks in 50 days for The James Cook University Hospital
Gareth Dockerty joins Helen Benson from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust on one of her ’50 walks in 50 days’ for a charity close to her heart.
Conservation
Breeding hen harriers in England increase again
Gareth Dockerty comments on Natural England’s newly released breeding hen harrier figures for England.