Reclaim Our Moors

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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
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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!

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.

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 reclaimourmoors@gmail.com and we can let you know when more fun is afoot.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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”

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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.

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.

🌱 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.

🎶 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.

🥾 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.

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

@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.

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

🛑 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

👥 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.

🎓 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!

Thanks - I'll ask another 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...

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".

Lovely, thanks very much! Are you game?

‘Reclaim Our Moors’ – local residents in Sheffield & North Derbyshire start campaign for community ownership of ‘trashed’ grouse moors Around 40 local residents from Sheffield and North Derbyshire have started a campaign to bring local grouse moors in to community ownership. The group ‘Reclaim Our Moors’ held its inaug…

Much kudos to this new campaign group - give them a follow! @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social

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‘Reclaim Our Moors’ – local residents in Sheffield & North Derbyshire start campaign for community ownership of ‘trashed’ grouse moors Around 40 local residents from Sheffield and North Derbyshire have started a campaign to bring local grouse moors in to community ownership. The group ‘Reclaim Our Moors’ held its inaug…

Positive community action on the disgraceful ruination of the Moscar estate, on the edge of Sheffield. Crazy this sort of land management is allowed in an era of climate change and air pollution. Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/19/r...

Campaign group launches bid to take Sheffield grouse moor into community ownership Members of Reclaim Our Moors have made a starting offer of £1 to the Duke of Rutland, owing to Moscar Moor’s “poor condition”.

A new campaign hopes to take advantage of upcoming legislation to take a #Sheffield grouse moor into community ownership.

@reclaimourmoors.bsky.social have made a starting offer of £1 to Moscar Moor's current owner the Duke of Rutland due to its "poor condition".

@sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project.

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