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C4PMC@c4_pmcJun 3

The same investigatory methods that courts have rejected, that prosecutors hv refused to rely on, and former head of National Wildlife Crime Unit has openly criticised, are now what @Natures_Voice seeks to influence Parliament. @DefraGovUK @JoeMorrisMP c4pmc.co.uk/post/discredited…

Discredited in Court, Welcomed in Parliament: The RSPB's Lobbying Problem

There is a glaring inconsistency at the heart of the RSPB's campaign against grouse shooting. The same investigatory methods that courts have rejected, that prosecutors have refused to rely on, and...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 29

Despite @peakdistrict claims it doesn't react to social media, it turns out the truth is rather different... c4pmc.co.uk/post/turns-out-t…

Turns out the PDNPA Were Listening All Along. That's The Problem.

This week the Peak District National Park Authority deleted a social media post about wild swimming, took the criticism on board, and replaced it within 24 hours with something better. We said so at...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 22

The question Dr Tingay refuses to engage with is whether the regime she demands for DGS is justified by the evidence she claims to marshal or whether it would do irreversible damage to the landscapes and rural communities she has spent a career attacking. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-truth-a…

The truth about Dr. Ruth Tingay's 'science by slogan'

Few figures in British conservation have done more to blur the line between research and activism than Dr Ruth Tingay. Her recent webinar for Friends of the Dales, pitched as a sober account of how...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 21

Britain's First Megafire: A Thousand Years of Carbon Gone in Four Days. It is time for the policy debate to catch up with the science, and for the science to be heard above the noise of those who would prefer the moors to burn rather than be managed. c4pmc.co.uk/post/britain-s-f…

Britain's First Megafire: A Thousand Years of Carbon Gone in Four Days

It took four days for Dava Moor to release carbon that had been locked in peat for a millennium. Four days to undo what a thousand years of slow, patient, cold and wet British weather had built up...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 19

The RSPB is measuring smoke with a broken ruler which fails to consider wildfire. The 2018 Saddleworth fire exposed 4.5 million people to elevated particulate levels & has been linked to around 28 premature deaths. That is the publichealth context of this. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-rspb-is…

The RSPB is measuring smoke with a broken ruler which fails to consider wildfires

A new University of Leeds paper, amplified by the RSPB into a call for grouse-moor licensing in England, measures a wet January smoke plume against an air-quality standard the UK has never put into...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 13

A senior police officer with responsibility for wildlife crime investigations has chosen to deliver his findings, interpretations and his calls for cultural change from platforms run by activist campaigners, rather than through proper processes. c4pmc.co.uk/post/a-police-of…

A Police Officer, A Filmmaker, and a Community on Trial: DI Harrison Returns

It is now four months since we raised concerns about Detective Inspector Mark Harrison of the National Wildlife Crime Unit lending the authority of his office to the Friends of the Dales' Eyes on the...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 13

Burning money, not heather: @nationaltrust High Peak failure. By any normal standard of financial accountability, this is a charity spending vast sums to produce outcomes that are routinely written off by fires that competent management would have avoided. c4pmc.co.uk/post/burning-mon…

Burning money, not heather: the National Trust's High Peak failure

In a pre-recorded film released to promote the National Trust's work on its High Peak Estate, General Manager Craig Best made a series of claims that range from the misleading to the demonstrably...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 11

The Black Cock Lek: One of the UK's great wildlife spectacles, delivered by gamekeepers. The black grouse is red-listed in the UK. Its population collapsed through the C.20, and across most of the UK it has simply disappeared. It is worth asking why. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-black-c…

The Black Cock Lek: One of England's great wildlife spectacles, delivered by gamekeepers

Stand on the right patch of the north Pennines at dawn this week and you will witness one of the most extraordinary wildlife spectacles still on offer in England. Male black grouse, glossy black with...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMay 5

Wet and walk away: The National Trust Peak District Moor they said would not burn. That turned out well. Even the plastic dams melted. @nationaltrust @DefraGovUK c4pmc.co.uk/post/wet-and-wal…

Wet and walk away: The National Trust Peak District Moor they said would not burn

The huge wildfire that burned across National Trust ground in the Peak District last week was on what we might charitably call Wet and Walk Away land. Nine fire crews, nearly a square kilometre of...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 30

'The signs are there, but people walk straight past them' - wildfire averted after quick thinking keeper extinguishes camp fire in Calderdale. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-signs-a…

'The signs are there, but people walk straight past them' - wildfire averted after quick thinking...

Three campers, three warning signs, one drop in the wind. That, more or less, is what stood between an SSSI moor near Heptonstall and a major wildfire this week.The bones of the story, as reported in...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 28

Data, not opinions: finally a Wildfire Commission that listened to the experts. c4pmc.co.uk/post/data-not-op…

Data, not opinions: finally a Wildfire Commission that listened to the experts

When the Wildfire Commission convened in London on 23 April, something quietly remarkable happened. For perhaps the first time in years, a major discussion about wildfire policy in the UK was...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 22

The gamekeepers keeping the uplands standing at no cost to the public purse. @D_Times story on Peak District gamekeepers being turned away from council tips while clearing public litter reveals how our uplands actually function. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-gamekee…

The gamekeepers keeping the uplands standing at no cost to the public purse

This week's Derbyshire Times story on Peak District gamekeepers being turned away from council tips while clearing public litter should be read twice. Once for the immediate absurdity of it, and...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 20

Before @peakdistrict National Park boss Phil Mulligan asks taxpayers for more, he should explain where all the previous money went. c4pmc.co.uk/post/before-peak…

Before Peak District National Park boss Phil Mulligan asks taxpayers for more, he should explain...

The chief executive of the Peak District National Park Authority, Phil Mulligan, thinks the "easiest" and most "obvious" way to fund national parks is for the taxpayer to hand over more money. A 10...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 13

The National Trust claim they are ‘demoralised’ by their wildfires, but they should take a long look at themselves before seeking public sympathy. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-nationa…

The National Trust claim they are ‘demoralised’ by their wildfire, yet fail to acknowledge their...

The National Trust’s Rosie Holdsworth says the wildfires tearing through Marsden Moor have been "demoralising" for those managing the land, but the National Trust should take a long look at themsel...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 10

The RSPB has spent 15 years spreading disease, yet still thinks it knows best. c4pmc.co.uk/post/the-rspb-ha…

The RSPB has spent 15 years spreading disease, yet still thinks it knows best

This week the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds issued new guidance on garden bird feeding. From 1 May, it says, people should take their feeders down. Flat bird tables should be retired...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcApr 9

3 more fires on the Marsden and Saddleworth moors yesterday. 3 more incidents that cld hv been prevented. 3 more times that gamekeepers, the people our policymakers would rather sideline, stood in the breach alongside Fire Services and got the job done. c4pmc.co.uk/post/wildfire-do…

Wildfire Doesn't Respect Bad Policy

Three more fires on the Marsden and Saddleworth moors yesterday. Three more incidents that could have been prevented. Three more times that gamekeepers, the people our policymakers would rather...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMar 26

How a footpath achieved what the @nationaltrust could not after yet another wildfire on Howden Moor. c4pmc.co.uk/post/how-a-footp…

How a footpath achieved what the National Trust could not after yet another wildfire on Howden Moor.

On Monday evening, a wildfire tore across Howden Moor in the Dark Peak, on land owned by the National Trust. This has happened many times before and it will likely happen many times again..What makes...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMar 24

Puffins, Predators and Double Standards: The RSPB's Selective Science. After a 74% decline in puffins since 1999, the eradication of ferrets from NI's largest seabird colony, is a great achievement, but raises uncomfortable questions for @Natures_Voice. c4pmc.co.uk/post/puffins-pre…

Puffins, Predators and Double Standards: The RSPB's Selective Science

Conservation Success on Rathlin Island - LIFE Raft Project | RSPBThe news from Rathlin Island deserves genuine celebration. After a 74% decline in puffin numbers since 1999, the completion of the...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMar 20

The @ChtyCommission has made its position on the capture of charitable organisations by narrow political interests very clear. @FriendsDales has serious questions to answer yet its chair, Jonathan Riley, seeks further obfuscation. c4pmc.co.uk/post/friends-of-…

Friends of the Dales has questions to answer yet its chair, Jonathan Riley, seeks further obfusca...

Earlier this week we published an article into Friends of the Dales and the question of who is really driving its "Eyes on the Skies" campaign. We documented, in detail, how a small Yorkshire charity...

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C4PMC@c4_pmcMar 19

Bodmin wildfire the latest reminder to Natural England that rewetting won't stop a match. c4pmc.co.uk/post/bodmin-wild…

Bodmin wildfire the latest reminder to Natural England that rewetting won't stop a match

Bodmin Moor has been on fire. A suspected arson attack at Dozmary Pool sent 100 metres of gorse up in a single night. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service attended four large fires in rapid succession....

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