Here is a selection of messages that Wild Justice has received over the last couple of days since news of our General Licence victory has emerged: Having just seen the news item on the BBC regarding the despicable targeting of Chris Packham I thought I’d write to assure you there must be lots of other…
BLOG POSTS
What they are saying about the General Licences (2)
Natural England is hiding from the media and hasn’t given a single interview about the general licences as far as I can see. Every journalist to whom I have spoken has said that NE is either not answering the ‘phone or is turning down interview requests. A bit odd for a public body. I’ve just…
What they are saying about the General Licences
Woodpigeons and crows can no longer be legally killed in England – The Guardian Wild Justice’s Mark Avery quoted ‘It’s not every day that three part-time conservationists overturn decades of unlawful bird-killing‘. BASC website – Peter Glenser BASC Chair ‘Natural England’s decision to withdraw the open general licences will cause chaos and uncertainty in the…
Wild Justice’s legal challenge – what happens now?
NE say they are going to consult on the General Licences. In the meantime, NE has decided that anyone wanting to kill any of the species listed on the three General Licences which will be revoked on Thursday 25 April will need to apply for an individual licence giving grounds and evidence, as the law…
Wild Justice’s legal challenge – how the case progressed
Wild Justice and lawyers outside Defra Nobel House on 11 March ahead of meeting Natural England. L to R: Anita Davies (Matrix Chambers), Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay (Wild Justice), Carol Day (Leigh Day) and Mark Avery (Wild Justice). Wild Justice’s legal success against Natural England had the following chronology: 13 February – “Pre Action…
Statement by Wild Justice
Yesterday afternoon (23 April), nearly 10 weeks after Wild Justice launched a challenge to the legality of the 2019 General Licences (on 13 February), Natural England announced that it was revoking 2019 General Licences 04/05/06 on Thursday (25 April) after deciding to do so at its Board meeting of 15 April. After nearly four decades…
Wild Justice wins its first legal challenge
Wild Justice was set up by Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and myself and was launched on 13 February this year. Our first legal challenge was against the General Licences issued by Natural England on 1 January this year. Late this afternoon Wild Justice heard that we had won our first legal challenge. We could only…
130 years of Little Owls
Little Owl. Photo: By Trebol-a (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Little Owls were successfully introduced into the UK at Lilford Hall, just down the road from me here in east Northants, by the 4th Baron Lilford in 1889; on St George’s Day, his gamekeeper found a little owl on a nest.
BASC doublespeak – another example
As disputation goes, this is on the level of ‘I didn’t steal your car and it’s mine anyway’ David Mitchell in Observer 14 April David Mitchell wrote in the Observer last week about the public subsidy of gun licences and is somewhat unimpressed by BASC’s ‘argument’ from those who give ‘specially bred poultry a terrifying…
Dear Tony
Dear Tony I’m really glad that you are taking over the hot seat at NE. Best of luck with it. And you certainly don’t need any advice from me, but… Your job is really about nature – but you’ll have to deal with a bunch of interest groups on the way – some of them…