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Why are our precious peatlands left to smoulder? We examine the ongoing wildfire response, RSPB inaction, and policies leaving moorlands completely vulnerable.

We've teamed up with four rural partners to bring Moorland Association members some exciting new discounts.

The Moorland Association has asked the ICO to review Natural England's refusal to release QA records behind its blanket bog conservation document.

Natural England and Defra still can't show the audit trail behind NEER155's “rigorous peer review” claim — and why that matters for moorland management.

Natural England's Peatland Restoration Roadmap puts 95% of the pipeline on upland ground, but three-quarters of it has no firm commitment yet.

Gamekeepers' families, including a 12-year-old, told Parliament's wildfire inquiry the human cost of restricting moorland management. Their evidence, in full.

A wildfire burned around 200 hectares of moorland near Glossop. Land managers say new limits on controlled burning leave England's uplands primed to burn.

MPs heard evidence that cutting wildfire risk means managing upland fuel loads — through prescribed burning, cutting and grazing — not rewetting alone.

Read the Moorland Association's letter to The Times calling for transparency and accountability from Natural England and conservation charities.

A Teesdale survey found roughly twice as many curlews on blanket bog managed by burning or cutting as on unmanaged bog, while numbers stayed stable.

Are Natural England's policies forcing farmers off the land? Read our letter to The Telegraph defending active management and the future of working moorlands.

After 40 years of close involvement with the Moorland Association, Robert Benson has decided that the time has come to retire from his regional role with the MA.