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BASC is probably under considerable pressure from its membership to ‘do something’ about Wild Justice’s potential further legal challenges of the general licences and actual legal challenge to gamebird releases. But there’s not a lot they can do except huff and puff. BASC will tell DEFRA (that’ll go down well) that there is no need…

BASC is miffed by Wild Justice’s legal action against the lawfulness of Natural Resources Wales’s general licences. In a badly written statement which doesn’t say much, but says most of it twice, BASC calls Wild Justice a bunch of names. Apparently Wild Justice is attacking the countryside whereas we (Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and I)…

In a statement, some so-called leading rural organisations pretend to join the ranks of eco-zealots and condemn illegal raptor persecution. Of course, these organisations have always said this, but they’ve never been able to deliver any change on the ground. They aren’t so much leading organisations as lagging ones – about a century off the…

I’m told that BASC was planning to have an event in Derbty Museum and Art Gallery but that the museum has decided that this was a bit of a mistake. The event will go ahead but not in the Notice Nature, Feel Joy Gallery (which would have had to have been renamed the Notice Nature…

It was the Sunday morning after the Friday evening about which I have already written. And when I say it was the Sunday morning it most certainly was but it was closer to the coming breakfast than the past supper and I was just leaving the bar of a Buxton Hotel, after plotting the downfall…