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…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
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…
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…
Wild Justice becomes member of Wildlife and Countryside Link
Wild Justice has, today, become the 51st member of Wildlife and Countryside Link.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust press release
Give Peat a Chance and Save the World Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are launching a national appeal to restore the ‘brown and broken’ Yorkshire peatlands to their former glory in an effort to combat climate change and flooding. Buckden Pike. Photo: Gordon Haycock Peatlands are the most iconic of Yorkshire’s landscapes, but 80% of them are…
Let Nature Sing – the new campaign from RSPB
Over the next two years the RSPB hopes that its Let Nature Sing campaign will bring the music of the wild back into our lives, to remind people of the sounds we love from nature and how we would miss them if they were gone. I’m already missing them quite a lot. RSPB has joined…
BGBW results – RSPB press release
Song Thrush. Photo: Chris Gomersall/RSPB images RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch results show mixed picture for UK’s garden birds House sparrow remains at the top of the Big Garden Birdwatch rankings with almost 1.2 million sightings throughout the weekend but for many species fewer birds were recorded than in 2018. Almost half a million people across…