Ian Coghill

I'm a game shooter, wildfowler and fisherman, lifelong conservationist and author of ‘Moorland Matters.’ I was the longest serving chairman of GWCT and am a former chairman of AimToSustain.

We need to talk about trees

Complex problems rarely have simple answers. Trees are wonderful vegetables, but the simplistic notion that simply planting any tree, anywhere, must help with the climate crisis is both crass and dangerous.

Wildfire and conservation industry. Blind faith and ashes.

The RSPB has turned a self serving theory into policy. The uplands are victims of the conservation industry's promotion of "their truth', the fantasy that a combustible landscape will not burn, because they say it won't.

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