MA in the Media

The article below appear in The Times on 15th April 2025:

Defra must be congratulated on its commitment to protecting our uplands, yet its actions are resulting in them going up in flames.

Since we are experiencing our worst year for wildfires and scientists are predicting climate change to increase these fourfold it’s astonishing that government policy is making the situation even worse, through rapidly increasing the vegetation fuel load.

The Moorland Association are quoted in this excellent piece by Maureen Hodges on the massive wildfire risk in The Cumberland News.

Six months after applying for a licence, we are still waiting to hear if Natural England is interested in continuing the successful trial.

The government is being urged to avoid a "Los Angeles style tragedy" posed by the increasing risk of wildfires on moorlands.

It's been four years since Natural England decreed that moorland managers should drastically reduce traditional heather burning over deep pe

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