Nature & Wildlife

The Moorland Association asks the RSPB to clarify what its reserve bird data reveal and how upland management outcomes should be assessed with transparent evidence.

UK curlew have fallen 49% since 1995. Four studies find keepered grouse moor fledges nearly four times as many chicks. Evidence for Defra's gamebird call.

BTO modelling puts Curlew stability at 1.06 chicks hatched per pair, not the 0.6 fledged figure often quoted. Why the two differ, and what it means for the uplands.

Moorland holds some of Britain's best-preserved archaeology, from Bronze Age boundaries to prehistoric rock art.

An eight-year experiment showed predator control roughly tripled golden plover breeding success. Here is what the science says about waders on grouse moors.

Almost 90% of England's black grouse are found on grouse moor fringes. Here is what the research says about their recovery in the North Pennines.

Neither of England's main farm schemes funds predator control for Curlew, a BTO review finds, though Yorkshire Dales farmers say they would back it.

Natural England’s final reports show hen harrier numbers rose sharply where brood management was available, strengthening the case for future conservation licensing.

A large share of Britain's breeding short-eared owls nest on open upland moorland. Here's why these vole-hunting, day-flying owls depend on the hills.

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

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.

Curlew are declining because too few chicks survive. The peer-reviewed evidence on predation control, habitat and managed moorland, and what reverses the loss.