SSSIs in #NationalParks are on average in worse condition than those elsewhere 📉

There's also a staggering lack of data on monitoring protected areas making it difficult to know how they're doing within the Parks🙄

Help us revive our Parks 👉buff.ly/3Q3KUcR

So pleased with the launch of our charitable equipment programme; MoorBoots. The impact its already having on young people is amazing. Next year bigger and better! come and talk to us, we love to partner. The Stars are for Everyone Dartmoor Wildcamping Action Group Alpkit Cotswold Outdoor BMC Access Team

⛺️Dartmoor National Park Authority have updated the map showing where public can camp on the commons...

Regardless of the outcome in the Supreme Court this autumn, this will likely be the definitive zonation going forward.

🧵So, let’s take a look at what’s GONE and what's NEW.

40 years of immensely important work. Thank you Kate from everyone at the DPA! Dartmoor Preservation Association The Stars are for Everyone (we're really proud you have been so instrumental in our history too!)

A wonderful new track from Holly Ebony Music is out today, celebrating #Dartmoor & fighting for our Right to Roam because these are The Stars are for Everyone & we all deserve the right to #wildcamp

BUY HERE: hollyebony.bandcamp.com/track/follow-y…

Guy Shrubsole Lewis Winks George Monbiot Dartmoor National Park

Delighted to share my exhibition poster for 'Wild Campers' documenting the wild camping campaign The Stars are for Everyone at Southcombe Barn Gallery 11th-25th May✨

Few pet owners are aware of this issue. Toxins enter the water system & find their way into our rivers & seas causing environmental harm.

A ban on over-the-counter sales of such products & education about their impact is just one of our proposals for overdue dog regulation.

Peatland restoration is a complex, expensive and hugely varied challenge. And it's one we''re rising to. Thanks for all your support here as we work to restore degraded and drying peatland across Dartmoor, Exmoor and Cornwall.

Good piece here with Dr Adrian Colston

And a fascinating question about why the heather isn't regenerating in the remoter parts of the moor free of livestock (which I've seen myself) - and yet contrast this with what happened in the West Mill Tor when stock were excluded.

On #WorldRewildingDay a simple wish this evening for healing Dartmoor's wounded land ...

I'm appalled that Dartmoor National Park Authority Dartmoor National Park is seemingly giving up on nature recovery & undermining site protections.

Dartmoor's SSSIs are in a poor state - you can't just move the goalposts on this by changing the condition criteria:
endsreport.com/article/186590…

We're thrilled to relaunch our 'Moor Boots' grant scheme🥾

As part of our mission to remove financial barriers to Dartmoor, we've teamed up with Ten Tors and Jubilee Challenge organisers to identify needs across the region:🌍tinyurl.com/MoorBoots

#Hiking #Camping

When you say 'other local stakeholders', Steve, let's be honest - none of us local residents got the invite. Despite the fact that we all love Dartmoor, and our taxes pay for the stewardship schemes that are meant to be protecting it (but aren't):

x.com/SteveBarclay/s…

Congratulations to Vaughan Gething on becoming the new First Minister for Wales 🎉

This is a historic moment, but also a fresh opportunity to put Welsh #NationalParks at the heart of solving many issues facing nature, climate and people in #Wales today 🏞️
nation.cymru/news/first-min…

Important and exciting Dartmoor job here: Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Project Director
countryside-jobs.com/job/apr24/cent…

Vixen Tor on Dartmoor is a good example of why we need access reform in England:

🚁'These wild places are open to the public but can only be accessed by helicopter or by trespassing over private land.'🏝️

theconversation.com/right-to-roam-…

The Stars Are For Everyone will be attending in solidarity with the people of Cirencester this weekend - protecting free access to their nearby countryside.

This Sunday Right to Roam will join with local residents to oppose the paywalling of Cirencester Park, one of the largest open spaces in the region.

The park has been open to the public by long-standing custom for 326 years.

As of Friday, that will end.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Sometimes protest is what's called for though. As when a major landowner attempted to revoke the right to wild camp on Dartmoor.

So Right to Roam teamed up with The Stars are for Everyone to fight back. Here, a team of Morris dancers and a samba band join us outside the Royal Court.