Tim Bonner: Camping, trespass and culture...
The ongoing legal battle over the right to camp on Dartmoor which returned to the courts this week has generated an...
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Category: Rural Communities
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Countryside Alliance to hold briefing on...
Rural crime is a key issue for rural communities and was a key plank of our Rural Charter which we launched before the...
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Tim Bonner: The new politics of the...
The Alliance has, as ever, been at all the major party conferences over the past few weeks and our fringe meetings...
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Countryside Alliance calls for...
The Countryside Alliance has responded to the government’s proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework...
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Maidstone becomes latest council to agree...
Maidstone Borough Council in Kent has become the latest local authority to support a Countryside Alliance campaign to...
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Trail hunting and mental wellbeing
Lobbying MPs and ensuring that policy makers and other opinion formers are fully aware of the value of trail hunting...
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Scotland: Ban on wood-burning stoves paused
In a victory for rural campaign groups including the Scottish Countryside Alliance, Alasdair Allan, Minister for...
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Tim Bonner: The government's new nature...
According to press reports the government is planning to appoint a special envoy for nature as part of a strategy to...
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2024 – A disappointing year for hen harriers...
The hen harrier is one of our rarest birds of prey and just 11 years ago there were no successful nests in England....
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Bird keepers have just two weeks to sign up...
Following its consultation on proposed registration requirements for all bird keepers in Great Britain earlier this...
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Join us on Countryside Day at Cheltenham
We are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of discounted tickets for Countryside Day at Cheltenham on...
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Commons eyes the future for sheep farming
In an important early signal of the language and ideas underpinning the new Labour Government’s approach to farming, on...
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