Spate of Wildfires Highlights Need for Action
- Rob Beeson
- Mar 6
- 1 min read
It’s only the first week of March and we’ve already seen a spate of wildfires across our moors.
Natural England’s restrictions on traditional land management practices such as controlled winter burning has led to an increased fuel load, creating conditions ripe for wildfires like these.
We recently wrote to the Home Secretary to ask her to reverse Natural England's restrictions on vegetation management and to make it the law for countryside fuel loads to be treated as seriously as those in cities.
You can make a difference by writing to your MP, asking for a meeting about wildfire risk. You can use our free template here.
This Week’s Wildfires
Courtesy of the Peak District Moorland Group, this video shows a wildfire on an area known as Dartmouth, adjacent to land owned by National Trust Marsden.
Glossop Fire & Rescue Service had their first wildfire incident to deal with on Tuesday night.
News shared by Calderdale Moorland Group on Wednesday night detailed more than 40 Fire Fighters helping to tackle a wildfire near Cupwith Reservoir, West Yorkshire.
This photo, shared by K Bathrooms on Facebook and featured on the Manchester Evening News website, shows a wildfire north of Oldham on Wednesday evening.
