- Features
Time to change your approach, BASC warns RSPB
In an open letter to the RSPB chair, BASC calls out the RSPB’s “increasingly negative” public attitude towards sustainable shooting.
- Features
The Moorland Chorus
Transport yourself to stunning Calderdale with the Moorland Chorus, capturing the sounds of dawn breaking on grouse moor teeming with life.
- Offbeat
All trees are equal, but some are more equal than others
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty remarks on the similarities between the successful management of sand dunes and that of upland moorland landscapes.
- Latest news
Let’s Learn Moor 2021 gears up for launch
This year’s Let’s Learn Moor starts on Monday 5 July, running across nine venues and welcoming more than 2,000 primary school children throughout the week.
Press release
Final changes to burning regulations aid climate change research
Following official representation from BASC and other organisations, Defra has recognised the need for scientific research to become a licensable activity within the new burning regulations in England. Following an open dialogue with BASC the addition has been successfully made so that continuing and future studies can be undertaken through Read more…
- Latest news
BASC accuses RSPB of exploiting Northern Ireland wildfire
The RSPB have used the recent wildfire in Northern Ireland’s Mourne mountains as a platform to call for a ban on controlled burning.
- Offbeat
Positive impacts of burning recognised by Government
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty unravels what the government’s announcement on burning actually means and organisation’s work behind the scenes to ensure evidence-led policy.
- Latest news
BASC responds to Government announcement on heather burning
Government announcement on heather burning offers promise of licences as consequences of a blanket ban recognised.
- Offbeat
Green Party upland policy cut down to size
Green Party parliamentary questions on afforestation have accidently chopped down their own uplands policy, BASC research finds.
