Nature

The North of England Curlew Conservation awards were held on 18th August at Masham Town Hall. The awards, organised by Nidderdale...

The seventh annual ‘Let’s Learn Moor’ event, hosted over five days in July, has been a runaway success. An extraordinary 2,600 children...

The Moorland Association reports a poor breeding season for moorland birds, including hen harriers, as the exceptionally wet weather has...

Gamekeepers in the Yorkshire Dales hatched a cunning plan to save a clutch of curlew eggs after the mother bird was sadly killed by a dog...

The following letter for publication has been sent to The Guardian by Andrew Gilruth, Chief Executive of the Moorland Association. Sir,...

The Moorland Association welcomes the  commitment within the Labour Party’s manifesto, published today, that Labour, if elected, will...

Landowners in the North York Moors are hosting a series of Moorland Safaris to celebrate the thriving birdlife on grouse moors in the...

The Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group and Bolton Estate report that the Osprey at Bolton have had a successful hatching. When the Osprey...

The Bolton Estate in Wensleydale is celebrating a record number of nesting Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) this year, with an...

The following letter from Stephen Ramsden was published in Farmers Guardian this week. 14 May 2024 Predation from all directions The...

A series of events have taken place in the uplands celebrating the curlew, to coincide with World Curlew Day on 21 April. In the North...

The Moorland Association supported celebrations to mark World Curlew Day this weekend in the North York Moors, with internationally...

A pioneering research project is testing whether drones could cut the cost of peatland restoration in Yorkshire. Swinton Estate, a member...

What does ‘boosting biodiversity’ actually mean? The question is important because it underpins government policy, funding, regulation...

The following letter from Andrew Gilruth was sent to the Telegraph in response to an article calling for grouse shooting and farming to...

In response to the excellent article by Matt Ridley in the current issue of The Spectator, the following letter was sent to the magazine...

The moors of Yorkshire are known and loved for their abundance of heather in the summer, but there are a wealth of other natural species...

The North Pennines support a nationally significant population of merlin and the long-term trend is stable, bucking the trend of decline...

Bird of prey sightings on a North York Moors estate have risen to record levels. Spaunton Estate, which carries out detailed species...

The largest translocation of curlew eggs ever undertaken begins next week, with 120 eggs due to be transported from the Yorkshire Dales...