Yesterday my mate Chris Packham was handing in a petition to Buckingham Palace asking the Royal Family to rewild their extensive land holdings as a tangible and visible token of their support for UK nature conservation. It’s the type of thing Chris does – he’s a campaigner, he’s an advocate and he puts himself about…
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Wild Justice’s Hen Harrier Day broadcast
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A week next Saturday, at 10am on 7 August, Wild Justice is broadcasting a programme about the uplands. Much of it will be live, and hosted live by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin, but we’ve been recording interviews with quite a wide range of people too. We’re being a bit coy about who they are…
This week
No book review this week as I have been writing a book more than reading a book, although I am confident of publishing at least one book review next Sunday. In other news: I saw my first Gatekeeper of the year but butterfly numbers are very low this year I saw my second Hen Harrier…
Wild Justice, the Shooting Times, the general licences and DEFRA.
The Shooting Times published an article in February where a regular columnist wrote about going out one day in January and shooting 10 species in a day – the ‘Perfect Ten’. Wild Justice reported this activity to DEFRA (see this Wild Justice blog) and have updated the situation (see this Wild Justice blog) with the…
Wild Justice starts two more legal cases
Wild Justice forced DEFRA to introduce restrictions on the release of non-native gamebirds into the countryside in a process which started back in 2019, produced, eventually a review of the evidence and a last-minute announcement that DEFRA would put Red-legged Partridge and Pheasant on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act making it an…
Wild Justice advice on responding to DEFRA gamebird consultation
DEFRA is consulting on the measures it will introduce to protect sites of nature conservation value from impacts of vast releases of non-native gamebirds. Wild Justice doesn’t think much of the consultation and is suggesting how the public could respond – click here. The consultation closes on Monday so a wet weekend might provide an…
Press release – Wildlife and Countryside Link
Major new campaign to protect nature launches today backed by 50+ nature organisations, plus celebrities and political figures PM called on to lead the way globally on commitments to nature by putting nature promises into law ahead of hosting global talks Public urged to sign petition to show support for legally binding nature protections –…
Happy birthday Wild Justice!
Wild Justice is a toddler – two years ago today it was launched to the public. See the Wild Justice blog – click here.
Wild Justice writes to DEFRA
See the Wild Justice blog for a copy of the letter giving DEFRA a prod.
Wild Justice asks GWCT…
… to fact check Secretary of State, George Eustice’s statements on gamebirds for scientific accuracy – click here.