Controlled Burning

Government policies are increasing upland wildfire risks. Read our letter to The Times urging Defra to address mounting vegetation fuels before it's too late.

Scottish Land & Estates survey records £6.4m of equipment and 266 person-days offered at the Glenmore-Strathnethy wildfire, much of it never tasked.

In a hard-hitting new piece for the Daily Mail, Lord Botham addresses the severe risks posed by unchecked rewilding and the resulting surge in devastating wildfires across the UK.

UK wildfire policy is failing. The Moorland Association urges a joint Defra-MHCLG Wildfire Resilience Board to shift focus toward proactive fuel management.

A study on the Langdale Moor fire finds managed heather patches burned less severely, sparing an estimated 7,000 tonnes of soil carbon.

Wildfire is now recognised as a climate risk in England's new NPPF. What it means for local plans, planning applications and moorland land managers.

Writing in The Telegraph, Lord Botham has delivered a blunt assessment of England's worsening wildfire season and the policy decisions behind it.

The Moorland Association has written to the Prime Minister on upland fuel loads and wildfire risk. Read our letter and provisional fuel load model.

The Moorland Association responds to Ben Goldsmith's Spectator claim that rewilding beats wildfire. The New Forest was drained, is managed, and still burns.

Explore how Natural England's shift on wildfire prevention emphasizes vegetation fuel reduction. Discover why policy must follow this crucial step.

A moorland fire is really two fires. Why rewetting and managing the fuel solve two different problems — and why the uplands need both.

A study of 206 wildfires in England and Wales finds grass moors burn biggest, heather hottest, and managed burning keeps fires smaller.