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Why Wild Justice exists

Wild Justice takes legal cases and advocates for a better deal for UK wildlife.

Species can’t take legal cases in their own names, they can’t write to MPs and they can’t sign petitions, but, together, we can stand up for wildlife using the legal system and seeking changes to existing laws.

What Wild Justice is


Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. A not-for-profit company is one where the directors don’t benefit from the profits of the company and money raised is spent on the aims (called the ‘objects’) of the company.
Nature conservation, primarily in UK.
Advocacy to make UK laws, policies and practices more wildlife-friendly.
Use of UK legal system to further nature conservation objectives.
Encourage public participation in nature conservation issues.

We decided not to set up a charity because that would limit some activities, eg campaigning against government policies, that we may want to carry out. We keep this decision under review.

What we do

We take legal challenges against UK governments and their agencies, and we campaign for a better deal for wildlife. Click on each of the following links for an example of some of the work we have carried out to date.

WHO WE ARE

Who we are

Our Team

Bob Elliot

BOB ELLIOT

CEO
"I’m absolutely delighted to be joining Wild Justice and to help play a part in protecting and restoring wildlife. This team’s dedication to legal challenges and campaigning to hold governments accountable and strengthen environmental protections aligns perfectly with my passion for conservation.

With my background in nature conservation, wildlife crime investigations, and animal welfare policy and campaigning, I’m excited to work alongside a team that’s truly making a difference. I look forward to helping drive change, inspiring public involvement, and fighting for a better future for nature."
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Ruth Tingay

Ruth Tingay

Director
I know many people who despair about what’s happening to our wildlife but who also feel powerless to help, typically because access to justice can be prohibitively expensive and a daunting arena. Wild Justice provides an opportunity for ordinary citizens to fight back on behalf of wildlife, collectively helping us to challenge poor decisions or flawed policies that threaten to harm our wildlife. With so many potential cases, the difficulty for us will be to decide which ones to take on first.
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Chris Packham

Chris Packham

Director
Wild. Justice. Because the wild needs justice more than ever before. The pressures wrought upon our wildlife have reached a crisis point and this is an essential response. The message is clear . . . if you are breaking the law, if the law is weak, if the law is flawed – we are coming for you. Peacefully, democratically and legally. Our simple premise is to work with the laws we’ve got to seek real justice for our wildlife, to reform, refine or renew those laws we have to ensure that justice can be properly realised. Our wildlife has been abused, has been suffering, exploited or destroyed by criminals for too long. Well, no longer. Wild Justice will at last be the voice of those victims and it will be heard . . . and justice will be served.
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How can you help?

We don’t just want your money – we’d like your support please. Your active support. We will give you opportunities to speak out for nature through signing petitions, writing to your elected politician, spreading the word and taking part in scientific studies. You’ll hear about these opportunities through our free newsletter – please subscribe through the box at the foot of this page.

We don’t expect that everyone will be turned on by each one of our projects so you can pick and choose where you put your valuable time and effort. But we hope that we’ll give lots of people lots of opportunities to make a difference for wildlife.

Having said that, we need your money too please. We appreciate that not everyone can donate but our work will grind to a halt without donations so an occasional donation, or a regular one of any size, will help us keep going. A typical legal challenge costs over £40,000 and can be funded with one very large and generous donation or 2000 very generous donations of £20+ each. The largest single donation we have ever had was over £12,000 – but most of the donations we receive are less than £100 but they all add up.
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