A letter to the Shooting Times
Dear Shooting Times, We write to you to draw to your attention the inaccuracy of an article published in your magazine of 10 February 2021 entitled ‘Shooting for a Perfect Te...
The Shooting Times and the general licences
Some time ago we told our newsletter subscribers, and wrote a blog (see here), about an article in the Shooting Times where a regular columnist of theirs wrote an account of going ...
Wilful blindness over grouse shooting
The Wild Justice petition, signed by many readers of this blog and many, many others across the UK, including in grouse shooting areas (see map below) had a debate in Westminster H...
200,000 signatures to save wildlife!
Early this morning the joint NGO #stateofnature petition passed 200,000 signatures. Wild Justice supporters played a large part in helping to reach this milestone. Thank you. The p...
Badger challenge – we lost this one
We heard on Friday that we had lost our challenge of the legality of free shooting of Badgers. It is legal for Natural England to license shooting of badgers which does not meet th...
Wild Justice questions the quality of NE’s IUCN Assessment for their lowland Hen Harrier reintroduction project
Yesterday Wild Justice sent the following letter to Natural England questioning the quality of their assessment of the feasibility of a reintroduction of Hen Harriers to southern E...
Ban driven grouse shooting debate rescheduled for 21st June 2021
After many false starts and long delays due to Covid19, the Westminster Hall debate on banning driven grouse shooting, triggered by our successful 2019 petition, has been reschedul...
Alleged breach of General Licences (updated)
Note: this blog was originally posted on 28 May, and was temporarily removed after a few days. It is now republished in its original form. There are important developments in this ...
