Downloads
Download a range of valuable reports and guides below:
Reports
This document presents the strategy for the Moorland Association for January 2025-December 2027.
Our briefing note, published in advance of the Westminster debate on the future of driven grouse shooting.
Comprehensive report looking at different approaches to land management in Wales, exploring the complex situation at Lake Vyrnwy, managed by the RSPB.
This paper looks at the data and provides costs for small, medium and extreme wildfires, considering a range of impacts.
The first study of its kind to assess the economic, environmental, and social value of gamekeeping on English grouse moors.
How nature groups cash in on disastrous policies they helped create to fix imaginary problems.
Report by Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) for the Scottish Government, detailing the significant response of land-based businesses to the Carrbridge and Dava wildfires in July 2025.
The economic, environmental and social impact of shooting in the UK by Cognisense.
A review of the evidence of the economic, environmental and social sustainability of driven grouse shooting. A guide for stakeholders and policy makers.
Information for policymakers on looking after moorland areas and the communities that depend on them.
By the Future Landscapes Forum, a group of academics and practitioners with specialist knowledge of the management, ecology, functioning and fire risk associated with heather-dominated landscapes in the UK.
By the Future Landscapes Forum, a group of academics and practitioners with specialist knowledge of the management, ecology, functioning and fire risk associated with heather-dominated landscapes in the UK.
This British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) report, commissioned by Natural England, investigates the recent increase in the English Hen Harrier population using population modeling.
A summary of ten years studying moorland management: heather burning compared to mowing or uncut approaches.
A review of the environmental impacts including carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and wildfire on peatland in England associated with grouse moor management.
An independent review into Sphagnum Inoculation on Peak District moors.
Changes in upland bird numbers and distribution in the Berwyn Special Protection Area, North Wales between 1983 and 2012.
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's essential guide.
This report explicitly aligns grouse moor management outcomes with public policy by considering its contribution to environmental goods and services, as defined by Defra’s 25 Year Environment Plan goals; the first time that has been done.
Advice
A useful handbook to help guide land managers through the process of applying for a licence to burn on deep peat
The checklist includes guidance on risk assessments, police reporting, evidence gathering, and how to engage calmly and lawfully.
This guide sets out the key legal facts about drones on moorland: what’s allowed, what’s not, and what action you can take if an incident occurs.
This guide sets out what an Asset of Community Value (ACV) is, what the legislation was intended to achieve, why recent large-scale moorland nominations have failed and how members should respond if land they own or manage is nominated.
This guide provides clarification on when Natural England must undertake a Habitats Regulations Assessment.
This report provides a comprehensive regional wildfire risk assessment and is the most detailed undertaken for a UK landscape.
A practical guide by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), who developed medicated grit in the 1980s.
A practical guide produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for farmers, landowners and conservationists.
A practical guide produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for farmers, landowners and conservationists.
This guidance is intended to assist moorland managers who wish to undertake a vegetation burn which they believe does not require a licence under The Heather and Grass etc Burning (England) Regulations 2021, but where there is shallow peat and they wish to collect evidence to show that the peat depth at the location of the burn is 40cm or less.
The Code sets out best practice in all areas of the sport. It enables shoot managers, guns, gamekeepers and their employees to deliver sustainable shooting.
Natural England Wildfire Risk Assessment document - Appendix 12: Uplands Management Group moorland Wildfire Risk Assessment and wildfire planning.