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The chairman of the EFRA Committee has written to Defra, asking how it is addressing concerns about managed burning licences and the evidence base behind the 2025 burning regulations.

Research shows managed burning and grazing cut wildfire severity by up to 70%. So why is Britain restricting it? What the moors told Parliament's fire inquiry.

Rewetting protects peat carbon but leaves flammable heather and gorse intact. Effective wildfire prevention needs cutting, burning and firebreaks too.

Fire chiefs, crews and Yorkshire Water told Parliament's wildfire inquiry the same thing: unmanaged fuel load makes moorland fires far harder to contain.

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.