The Peak District National Park wants to know what you think – so you should tell them. You’ve left it a bit late because your response has to be in by midnight (I assume) tonight. Here is some fairly detailed guidance on how you could make your views known on the wildlife-paucity of the Peak…
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Update on National Trust position on grouse shooting in High Peak
The news that the National Trust has completely blanked the petition by local people, including a good number of National Trust members, and is seeking to let a large area of its High Peak moorland to shooting interests has not gone down well. This version of the NT advert appeared on the Moorland Vision blog…
Peak signatures
Congratulations to local campaigners in the Peak District who, today, hand in an almost 5000-strong petition to the National Trust asking that they do not replace their exiting shooting tenant on their 8000ha estate around Kinder Scout and Bleaklow but instead move quickly forward with the NT’s own High Peak vision for rewilding and better…
Peak District snares – what they say
Yesterday’s news about the widespread use of snares in the Peak District National Park attracted considerable media attention, including: the original Daily Mirror story yesterday evening’s BBC TV East Midlands Today coverage, click here (about 5min 15secs in). The Guardian Daily Mail The Times Derbyshire Times A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Rutland (who…
Peak District snares on the regional news this evening
Following this morning’s blog about snares in the Peak District, the Hunt Investigation team’s film was used on the BBC regional news, and the footage shown includes a masked man shooting into a deep pit and then further footage of what seems to be the same masked man dragging off a dead badger. Click here…
Snaring in the Peak District National Park
A group called the Hunt Investigation Team (whose previous investigations include the South Herefordshire Hunt) have been investigating land identified by them as the Moscar Estate, in the Peak District National Park, owned, it is claimed by the Duke of Rutland. They have published footage of animals caught in snares including Badgers, Foxes and Mountain…
Let’s see the back of Andrew Bingham in High Peak
The Peak District is a fulcrum for change in the British uplands and has been the scene of three Hen Harrier Day events so far. Each of those events was held in the constituency of Andrew Bingham, High Peak, but we didn’t see him at any of them. The constituents of High Peak were strong…
Guest blog – More from the Peak District by Bob Berzins
Bob writes: I have a life long passion for the outdoors through rock climbing and fell running. A cancer scare in my thirties made me appreciate many things I simply hadn’t noticed before, from the smallest plants to the gap in the sky from a missing raptor. It’s all worth fighting for and that’s what…
Guest blog – Peak District paths by Bob Berzins
Bob writes: I have a life long passion for the outdoors through rock climbing and fell running. A cancer scare in my thirties made me appreciate many things I simply hadn’t noticed before, from the smallest plants to the gap in the sky from a missing raptor. It’s all worth fighting for and that’s what…
Gems from the written evidence 20 – more from the Peak District
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Locals from the Peak District are rightly outraged by what is happening in their National Park. I’ve already highlighted some written evidence from Bob Berzins, the Peak District Raptor Monitoring Group, Nick Brown and the Sheffield Bird Study Group. Here are some more views: Arne Swithenbank: I walk frequently in the Staffordshire Moorlands where the…