Wild Justice is taking on the Badger cull – or at least the licensing of free shooting of Badgers by Natural England. A crowdfunder launched at 2pm has raised £9,000 by 6pm, which is pretty amazing and probably indicates the level of anger about this cull of one of our most charismatic native species. To…
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Guest blog – Young Wild Writer Competition for Hen Harrier Day 2020 – Gill Lewis
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Gill Lewis writes: I’m really excited to have been given the chance to organise and announce the Young Wild Writer Competition for Hen Harrier Day 2020. My books have covered various issues, such as the impacts of bear bile farming in Southeast Asia and coltan mining the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but…
The latest fully-funded crowdfunder for Wild Justice
This week, Wild Justice’s third crowdfunder was fully funded, even in these difficult times. Our first challenge of the Natural England general licences (see the Jay above) was successful and much of the money raised for that has contributed to the Natural Resources Wales challenge (see Jackdaw above). We are awaiting news from the Court…
BASC press release and Wild Justice response
BASC issued a press release a while ago and the three Wild Justice directors have been chortling over it ever since. We were asked by a journalist to comment and sent them this: Our legal challenge is a strong one. Defra can be as robust as it wishes but these matters will be settled by…
Wild Peregrines for falconry (continued)
Yesterday’s two blog posts on the decision of Natural England to license the taking of a very small number of Peregrine chicks for captive breeding by falconers caused quite a storm (see here and here). Here are my thoughts: Many thanks to Gary Wall for writing a blog and for responding to all of the…
Guest blog – taking Peregrines from the wild for falconry by Gary Wall
Mark writes: Gary Wall is a falconer and I’m grateful that he took up my offer to write about the licence he has been issued by Natural England to take a small number of Peregrine Falcons from the wild. This blog gives more detail and background. Gary writes: Having been a falconer for 47 years…
Guest blog – Heal, a new rewilding charity
Jan Stannard, @janstannard, is a Founder Trustee of Heal, @healrewilding, a new rewilding charity in the UK. She has a business background which comes in handy for wildlife campaigning. She is involved nationally in swift conservation, is co-founder of Wild Maidenhead, leading their Wild About Gardens Awards scheme, and she organised England’s largest amphibian ladder…
Wild Justice launches new challenge of general licences – this time in Wales
Link to Wild Justice blog – click here. Link to crowdfunder – click here.
Wild Justice gamebirds challenge in Guardian
Defra challenged over ‘unlawful’ release of 57 million game birds in UK.
Wild Justice seeks judicial review of 2020 gamebird releases
See here – https://wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild-justice-seeks-judicial-review-of-gamebird-releases/