The 140-acre Keighley Habitat Bank, between Silsden and Riddlesden, will restore fields previously used for sheep grazing to their natural state - with meadows, scrub and woodland.

The results were shared in a study that, for the first time, quantified the extent of the UK’s heather moorland habitat and its historical and potential losses.. The figures show an estimated 60 ...

Seventy-five percent of the world's heather moorlands are in the UK. However, pollution, overgrazing and wild fires have damaged large areas. Several organizations in the Peak District National ...

“We do not burn peat and we do not deliberately damage moorland habitat.” The Moorland Association said the single formal warning came because a permitted burn on shallow peat had spread to ...

Helicopter footage shows the extent of the devastating moorland fires on Winter Hill near Bolton. Russell Hedley from the Woodland Trust said whole ecosystems had been wiped out by the blaze ...

Mountain hare population in Scotland at 1% of 1950s level 'Severe' decline blamed on habitat changes and culling by managers of local grouse shooting moorland ...

Moorland in Greater Manchester has been named as a habitat bank with the aim to conserve existing wildlife and attract new species. Under the scheme, developers will be able to purchase ...

A moorland site that was blighted by illegal waste dumping could become a “wetland habitat”.

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