Moorland Matters by Ian Coghill

Ian Coghill is a life-long conservationist and a keen participant in country sports. Following retirement of a 42 year career as Director of Community Safety and Environmental Services for Birmingham City Council, he became Chairman of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. Discover Ian's new book: Moorland Matters. With Britain's islands holding more than three-quarters of the Earth's stock of heather moorland, it is an extraordinary fact that it stands as one of the world's rarest habitats. Britain's moorlands have, in less than a decade, moved from a position of benign consensus to the epicentre of the bitterest conflict within UK conservation. This insightful book sets out to examine and expose the hidden issues surrounding UK moorland conservation, giving a voice to the many people who work and live there and who feel that what they have to say is often ignored. The fate of our uplands are in our hands and it is important that an alternative narrative, from the perspective of the practitioners who have cared for these places for generations are considered.

• Author: Ian Coghill
• Former Chairman of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Examines the hidden issues surrounding UK moorland conservation
• Gives a voice to those that live and work on these rare and precious habitats
• Published: May 2021
• Hardback
• 256 pages
• Size: 234 x 156mm