Resources
Download a range of valuable resources below:
Reports
This document presents the strategy for the Moorland Association for January 2025-December 2027.
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.
An independent review into Sphagnum Inoculation on Peak District moors.
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.
A summary of ten years studying moorland management: heather burning compared to mowing or uncut approaches.
Changes in upland bird numbers and distribution in the Berwyn Special Protection Area, North Wales between 1983 and 2012.
A review of the environmental impacts including carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and wildfire on peatland in England associated with grouse moor management.
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
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.
This report provides a comprehensive regional wildfire risk assessment and is the most detailed undertaken for a UK landscape.