Thread by @GDRNorminton

Beautiful day - perfect for burning Britain's uplands. This is Middle Moss (i.e. deep peat?) on Moscar Moor, owned by David Manners, Duke of Rutland, right now. Air pollution is intense across the Hope Valley. All in a National Park. @MoorlandMonitor @GeorgeMonbiot @wildmoorsuk

The Peak District is burning day after day so a few dozen people can shoot red grouse for sport. The Ladybower Reservoir is at an all-time low for mid-October, but three landowners are wrecking our water catchment. Plus, lots of carbon up in smoke. It can't go on. #BanTheBurn

I was with my friend @casparhenderson when he took this photograph on the side of the Manchester Road. It doesn't convey the scale of the scene, or its violence. It's ecocide, & thousands of us in the valleys, from Hebden Bridge to Sheffield, at risk of air pollution & flooding.

Here are some other images from the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Estate, taken in recent years. Includes endangered species. All so a few guns can shoot red grouse.

Our uplands don't have to be this way. We could have wild shooting, as they do with similar ecology in Sweden, where red grouse is known, tellingly, as willow grouse. We could have rewilding and carbon farming. More people employed and resilient uplands. Or: see @TarrasValleyNR.

Tell you what would really help: if the millions adversely affected sued these estates. Maybe @ClientEarthEUR could help? Also, if the royal family rewilded Balmoral. Because the rich who pay for the driven grouse experience are cos-playing the aristo and royalty lifestyle.

And I'd like to know what Sheffield's MPs think of the autumn air pollution episodes that come down to us courtesy of three landowners. @PaulBlomfieldMP @_OliviaBlake @LouHaigh @GillFurnissMP. What can be done to #BanTheBurn?