Blacka heathland restoration

Heathland is a semi-natural habitat, most often created by human land-use practices over thousands of years, and home to some of our most familiar species. Britain has some 25% of all the world’s heathland but it is a threatened habitat and we have lost over 75% of it in the last 200 years. The heath at Blacka Moor is in need of restoration to prevent its loss and that of the wildlife that lives there. Over time, the heathland has degenerated into scrub, gradually forcing out the heathland plants and threatening the animals which live in and on them. We wish to remove the encroaching scrub and bracken to restore the heath and to install top wiring on the dry-stone walls which surround the moor to enable us to introduce conservation grazing by cattle, the traditional method which originally formed the habitat, to ensure the moor does not degenerate again.