Farming Today has just covered the new general licences (9mins into programme). Heather Simons gave a good overview of the history and issues. BASC were interviewed and apparently they love dialogue. This is quite a turnaround. In 2019 BASC welcomed the decision (of which we believe they were a part) to rescind the invitations to…
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Wild Justice statement on the English general licences
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News: English general licences, for 2021, published – and they are different
DEFRA has just published the general licences for England for 2021 (helpfully alongside the existing licences which expire on 31 December 2020 so that one can compare and contrast). Click here for ‘conservation’ licences. Click here for serious damage licences. Click here for safety licences. I’m reading them, as are the Wild Justice lawyers.
New English general licences to be published today
It will be very interesting to view the new English general licences which are to be published later today. I honestly have no idea what they will look like. Last week we had a flurry of activity with our lawyers over the Wild Justice legal challenge of the Welsh general licences which goes to court…
Sunday book review – The Ring Ouzel by Vic Fairbrother and Ken Hutchinson
This superb book is the result of 20 years’ study of this one species by two men. I don’t know much about the two authors but they describe themselves as neither professional ornithologists nor academics – they are amateurs in only the best senses of the word. And rather than an amateur study we should…