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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Sep 3

3/ A great example of a community group in England trying to acquire land with clear environmental benefits to the local community is @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, who want to buy Moscar Moor in the Peak District - a natural flood defence, carbon store & 'green lung': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Sep 3

2/ It's vital that the English Devolution Bill is amended in Committee Stage to include 'environmental benefits' alongside social & economic ones - so that communities can acquire environmental assets they value, like rivers, woods & natural flood defences: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change

Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

www.powertochange.org.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Sep 3

In debate on new Community Right to Buy laws, great to see Labour MP @simonforstroud.bsky.social call for communities to be given chance to buy environmental assets, alongside social & economic ones - a point also made by Lib Dem MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... 1/

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks so much to Graham Wroe for his lovely write up in the Sheffield Telegraph. Do check out @telltherealtruth.bsky.social and join us reclaiming our moors!

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks so much to @thestar.co.uk for this lovely double page spread in today’s paper to mark the start of the shooting season.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey John, thanks for asking. We will likely be fundraising sometime soon - we've offered the Duke £1 for the moor so far and Dan's mum has said she'd happily cover that.

If you'd like to stay in the loop, drop us a line to [email protected] and we can let you know when more fun is afoot.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 12

We were delighted to be joined on Sunday by three of our elected representatives from @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social, from left to right: Cllr Christine Gilligan-Kubo (Hillsborough), Cllr Marieanne Elliot (Gleadless Valley), Tessa Lupton (Ecclesall candidate), Cllr Douglas Johnson (City).

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Pete Ambrose @born-to-re-wild.bsky.social · Aug 11

Went for a bimble up onto the local moors today and shocked by how much exposed peat there is. As mentioned on the @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social walk on Sunday exposed peat will quickly release CO2 whereas healthy peat is a great store for carbon.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 11

The copyright on the above photo of moscar moor is owned by Tim Taylor and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚀 Look mum, we're on the beeb! Perhaps auntie wants to Reclaim Our Moors too?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Wild Card @wildcard.land · Aug 11

A bid to buy Moscar Moor has launched which would take it from the assets of the Duke of Rutland and return its management to the local community, informed by ecologists. What’s not to like?

Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more updates

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Aug 10

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for the community

Local Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said: “I look forward to people making use of the upcoming 'Community Right to Buy' legislation to bring mismanaged land into community hands”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pete Ambrose @born-to-re-wild.bsky.social · Aug 10

A few of us went for a walk up there today to see what the Duke had been spending his grant money on.

(Plot Spoiler.)
Not much.

Not a single grouse was spotted all day either.

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · Aug 10

Excellent protest walk today across part of the Duke's trashed moorland. The mismanagement is not just "alleged", it's glaringly obvious. And it's not only about wildlife: degraded peat moorland releases carbon and contributes to climate change, and heather burning causes the majority of wildfires.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 10

🌱 Imagine how much richer the moors could be if they were owned by the community as a whole. We could restore them to their former glory, and we’d all benefit from cleaner air, reduced flood risk and abundant wildlife as a result.

📣 It’s time to reclaim our moors.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 10

🎶 We sang songs, listened to speeches, ate cake, and saw first hand how degraded the condition of the land is after years of being scoured of wildlife by gamekeepers who kill anything that could affect gamebird numbers.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 10

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hey Pete, can we make use of your lovely photos on our socials and website? If yes, would you like to be credited?

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Pete Ambrose @born-to-re-wild.bsky.social · Aug 10

@reclaimourmoors.bsky.social organised a great trip up to Moscar Moors today.
Songs were sung.
Speeches were made.
Not a single grouse was spotted or heard.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 29

(main image by Timjphillips, CC BY 3.0 2008, text added over image - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...)

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 29

🛑 Stop grouse shooting

📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice.

🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August

📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park

🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 22

👥 Lovely to get together for a proper in person natter after recent online conversations.

📜 We are hoping to pin down a collaboratively written constitution/manifesto type thing soon then get cracking with you all reclaiming our moors!

👋 Don't be shy saying hello if you want to get involved.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives...

🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda!

🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing

💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks - I'll ask another grouse

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · Jun 18

Members say they walked across part of the 6,000-acre estate, between Stanage Edge and the A57, and found "almost no insect life, few birds and no grouse".

Duke of Rutland is urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor to the people of Sheffield

The campaign group Reclaim Our Moors wants the Duke of Rutland to to sell Moscar Moor near Sheffield for £1 because they think it is in such...

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