Standing up for Nature
Have a look at this petition please, and see if you can sign it. And then ask a friend to sign it too. See some of the details on the Wild Justice blog – click here.
His Honour Justice Jarman handed down a very significant judgment today on Welsh general licences – see Wild Justice blog for details.
In a recent blog, Natural England sets out its approach to issuing specific licences for lethal control. You could be completely forgiven for not quite understanding how the licensing system works in England at the moment but I think it is like this: all wild birds are protected by law you can kill any species…
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The Wild Justice legal challenge has secured regulation of gamebird releases in a way never contemplated by the shooting industry. The Guardian: Pheasant and partridge classified as species that imperil UK wildlife. Wild Justice successfully argued that European protections obliged the authorities to regulate about 60 million non-native pheasants and partridges let loose into the…
DEFRA has announced that it will license gamebird releases on or near protected wildlife sites – see Wild Justice statement here.
Given that the government isn’t clamping down on field sports, you can see why the industry thinks they’ve got powerful mates. The rule of six decision has woken up the Labour party and millions of other people to ask why nothing has been done. The scale of it is just massive, yet partridge and pheasant…
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We had a chat with Jimmi Hill about how we get on, how we set up Wild Justice, driven grouse shooting and the meaning of life…
Wild Justice has provided an update on how the joint e-action with RSPB and Hen Harrier Action is going, with a list of the top 20 English constituencies (there are some familiar names there) – click here to have a look.