‘The problem, which the Scottish Government is willfully ignoring, is that muirburn is responsible for a large number of wildfires’

‘The problem, which the Scottish Government is willfully ignoring, is that muirburn is responsible for a large number of wildfires’

For those of you following the muirburn licensing fiasco in Scotland, where the Scottish Government has announced its decision to delay the implementation of licences for a second time after aggressive lobbying by the grouse shooting industry, Nick Kempe’s most recent parkswatchscotland blog will be on interest. Nick explores the known facts about the recent out-of-control muirburn on a grouse moor in Aberdeenshire that turned in to a wildfire t…