Yesterday, the Wild Justice directors (Ruth Tingay, Chris Packham (‘fresh’ back from Baja California) and I) met Chief Inspector Louise Hubble and Deputy Chief Constable Craig Naylor for a chat about wildlife crime. We covered a wide range of topics which included hare coursing, raptor persecution, poaching and how the law operates. Very useful for…
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Wild Justice legal challenge in Shooting Times
Wild Justice’s fully-funded legal challenge of the General Licences features on pages 6 and 7 of this week’s Shooting Times. The piece isn’t too bad (although it does contain errors) but notably, as in a piece in Farmers Weekly, neither team of journalists (!) has managed to get a quote from Natural England or Defra…
Scottish Wildlife Trust new CEO is Jo Pike.
Press release from SWT: The Scottish Wildlife Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Jo Pike as Chief Executive with immediate effect. Jo has been a member of the Trust’s Senior Management Team since 2010, most recently as Director of Public Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive since 2014. She takes over from Jonny Hughes,…
World Land Trust looks for new CEO
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The World Land Trust is looking for a new CEO to replace the irreplaceable John Burton. It’ll be a fantastic job for someone. It might be you. DETAILS HERE.
Nice advert from the Wildlife Trusts
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I wonder what the substance is… See here…
RSPB press release
Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbenena, adult courtship dance, Gough Island, January. Andy Schofield (rspb-images.com) Island restoration would help slow global rate of extinction Introduced invasive species have been responsible for hundreds of extinctions, the majority of these on islands. Targeting 169 islands – including 20 in the UK’s Overseas Territories – as a priority for restoration…
Fully funded inside 10 days!
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Wild Justice’s legal challenge to the General Licences is fully funded thanks to over 1100 of you. Thank you very much! We transferred £4,000 from the Wild Justice bank account, of donations that had arrived by that route, to the crowdfunding site, earlier today and closed the crowdfunder. We now have all the money we…
Farmers Weekly corrects itself – after a nudge
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Farmers weekly, online, published a slightly irritating article on Wild Justice’s legal challenge over the General Licences last week. We sent them the following letter early today, and had a nice chat with them, and they’ve changed the article in response to our letter. Here’s the letter; Your article on Wild Justice’s legal challenge of…
168 hours ago…
A week ago we launched our crowdfunder on the crowdjustice page to fund a judicial review of Natural England’s decision to issue the general Licences GL04-06. Now we have raised over £30,700 of the £36,000 we need to cover our lawyers’ (highly discounted) fees, court costs and the possibility that we may lose the case…
Thank you United Utilities
I asked United Utilities for some information on two subjects on 2 March and got my first reply on 19 March – that’s a hell of a lot quicker than Natural England usually manage. Thank you United Utilities. This question was about lead levels in water. This subject came up in questions after my talk…