Badgers and biscuits
On Tuesday Wild Justice had a long and detailed meeting with our legal team and a group of experts on badgers and bovine TB. There are many aspects of the badger-culling programme ...
Letter to DEFRA on general licences
Yesterday Wild Justice’s lawyers sent this letter to DEFRA. Paragraphs 16, 17 and 18 sum it all up pretty well. The choice is DEFRA’s – and with the choice comes ...
General licences – DEFRA heads for a new debacle.
Media speculation that DEFRA is woefully unprepared to issue new, lawful, sensible general licences is probably correct. The response of the shooting community has been to press D...
Wallasea raptor watch
Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery from Wild Justice went raptor watching yesterday afternoon at a rather chilly Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve in Essex. We see that we aren’t t...
BASC go ballistic
Maybe it was optimistic to think that the shooting industry would be eager to see the issue of the conservation impact of the unregulated release of tens of millions of gamebirds i...
Wild Justice Fighting Fund
We launched our fundraising drive for the Wild Justice Fighting Fund less than a week ago but it has already been very successful. Over £10,000 has come in over that period from hu...
Gamebird releases – renewed challenge
Today, indeed this very afternoon, our lawyers have sent the following Pre-Action Protocol letter to the Secretary of State for DEFRA, and to Natural England and Welsh ministers as...
Thank you!
We’ve been getting payments through PayPal, transfers to our bank account and cheques in the post. All are very, very welcome – thank you! We’ll give you some ide...
