The Great Outdoors

Why we need to defend wild camping

WILD CAMPING in the news, and not in a good way, has become an annual summer story. Tales of litter, fires and trashed campsites are good for engendering outrage – and that’s good for the landowners who’d like to stop or limit wild camping.

One of these has popped up on Dartmoor recently, a place well known in the outdoors world as the only part of England where wild camping is legal, at least in certain

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