Woodcock debate – does anyone shoot Woodcock before 1 December?
Some MPs really showed themselves in an unflattering light when they spoke in the Woodcock debate. Considering that GWCT and BASC favour NOT shooting Woodcock in October and either...
Woodcock see more clearly than some MPs
We received this rather fuzzy image of a Woodcock in a garden in London from a subscriber. What a great bird to see in your garden! At first glance, it looks almost as if the...
Wild Justice funding: helping to track down the raptor killers (guest blog, Guy Shorrock)
In 2020, Wild Justice initiated a Raptor Forensics Fund to help police forces across the UK to tackle wildlife crime. A £10K funding pot was established with donations from WJ, Nor...
Thank you, Benji Fallow!
Last December we wrote about how nine-year-old artist and naturalist Benji Fallow had chosen to donate the proceeds from his fabulous artwork to Wild Justice (amongst others) ̵...
Monday’s parliamentary debate on Woodcock shooting season
On Monday afternoon our petition calling for a change to the Woodcock shooting season was debated by MPs in Westminster Hall. This came about because nearly 108,000 people signed t...
Woodcock petition timeline
2022 early March – we talk about Woodcock shooting mid March – we talk to our lawyers about Woodcock shooting 21 March – we write to Defra and the Northern Irelan...
Phasing out toxic lead voluntarily just isn’t working…
Today a study on the use of lead shot in Pheasant shooting has been released – it has some significant (but not necessarily surprising) results. We’re now three years into a five-y...
Thanking a mammal
Our newsletter is received by over 30,000 subscribers and shared around and read by very many more. We obviously know the email addresses and names of subscribers and we have just ...
