One of my favourite short hikes is a hill walk near the market town of Abergavenny, which has a very unusual burial site and ...

"The Blorenge walk is a gentle hike from the car park across the mountaintop, taking around two hours and suitable for older ...

The Welsh site is Gwernclas Mountain in the Berwyns ... demonstrations and open days on Gwernclas. The demands on heather moorland are complex and the need to achieve a balance of the varied ...

Moel Famau, translates as 'the mother of mountains' in Welsh. The Jubilee Tower was ... is now being cleared and native woodland and heather moorland are being encouraged to take its place.

The former RSPB man has thrown his weight behind an initiative to protect internationally important heather moorland in North ... star Jason Rennie – the “Welsh Evel Knievel” – and former ...

HEATHER moorland is increasing in the north of England ... sheep and wildlife. Mr Peter Welsh, English Nature's senior officer for the North East and Yorkshire, said the blanket bog and heathland ...

HEATHER moorland habitat in the North of England is on the increase for the first time in 50 years , according to the Moorland Association. The steep decline in acreage been steadily reversed ...

Research shows that, thanks to considerable investment by owners of the land, the decline in heather moorland is being steadily reversed. Before the Second World War, heather covered vast areas of ...

The outcome will be that 45% of Welsh moorland will receive 89% of the money allocated to the moorlands. As a result, hundreds of hill farmers face losses of tens of thousands of pounds ...

This review could have significant consequences for the way in which our iconic heather moorland – described in 2017 by National Geographic as “our nation’s signature landscape” – is ...