WILDCAMPING v FLY CAMPING

COVID-19 led to a rise in irresponsible camping in 2020. Media reports told of hordes of illegal campers wrecking Britain’s beauty spots with a tsunami of human waste, litter, campfires and discarded equipment – a reprehensible trend that’s known as ‘fly camping’. Fly camping is brazenly camping close to roads, lakeshores, farms and villages, without permission nor consideration for the impact on nature and local communities. Wild camping is the opposite: it is responsible and inconspicuous, and adheres to a clearly-defined code of ethics.