The right to wild camp on Dartmoor could be under threat again after the supreme court granted permission for a wealthy landowner to bring a…
View More Landowner’s supreme court case threatens Dartmoor wild camping victoryTag: Land rights
‘Leisure land’: Cotswolds meadow locals campaign against sell-off plan
A hilltop meadow of flower-rich limestone grassland in the Cotswolds is under threat, according to residents, after it was divided into four-acre plots for people…
View More ‘Leisure land’: Cotswolds meadow locals campaign against sell-off plan92 constituencies in England allow no right to roam, data shows
People have no right to roam at all in 92 constituencies across England, new data shows, as campaigners call for an outdoor access code to…
View More 92 constituencies in England allow no right to roam, data showsHumans have reclaimed ‘land size of Luxembourg’ since 2000
Land reclamation is nothing new, but during this century there has been a significant rise in the creation of artificial land by humans, with a…
View More Humans have reclaimed ‘land size of Luxembourg’ since 2000Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp
More than 3,000 people joined one of the UK’s largest ever countryside access protests on Saturday on the Dartmoor estate of a wealthy landowner who…
View More Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild campIllegal tree felling in England to be punishable with jail and uncapped fines
Illegal tree felling in England will be punishable by unlimited fines and prison sentences from 1 January, the government has announced. The current fine for…
View More Illegal tree felling in England to be punishable with jail and uncapped finesHow ministers squashed proposals to expand right to roam in England
When countryside campaigners were invited to meet government ministers and share “big, creative ideas” for “structural and systemic changes” around access to green spaces, they…
View More How ministers squashed proposals to expand right to roam in EnglandThe right to swim: mass trespass of Kinder reservoir planned
At 2pm on 24 April 1932, hundreds of rebellious ramblers descended on Kinder Scout, Derbyshire’s highest point, to “take action to open up the fine…
View More The right to swim: mass trespass of Kinder reservoir plannedMinister defends shelving right to roam report: ‘the countryside is a place of business’
The English countryside is a “place of business” and already has “hundreds of thousands of miles of public footpaths”, a minister has said in response…
View More Minister defends shelving right to roam report: ‘the countryside is a place of business’‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral land
Micaela* always stops to kiss a cross at the base of three hills, a lush swath of land in the indigenous ejido of San Sebastián…
View More ‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral land