Wild Justice was founded by Dr Mark Avery, Chris Packham CBE and Dr Ruth Tingay in October 2018. It exists to use the legal system on behalf of wildlife and…
Wild Justice noted with interest the Efra Committee meeting which took evidence yesterday from Natural England. Wild Justice will make a fuller statement in the next few days. Meanwhile, we…
Natural England’s Deputy Chair Lord Blencathra (who was Acting Chair at the time of the decision to revoke the General Licences GL04, GL05 and GL06), interim Chief Executive Marian Spain…
Wild Justice is pleased, but not remotely surprised, to see that the RSPB has followed our lead on the general licence consultation and recommended that lethal killing of Jay, Jackdaw,…
A few days ago we thanked BASC for their response to the Defra consultation on general licences because it clarified how ridiculous was their call for a reversion to the…
We are grateful to BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) for providing a very helpful visual aid to guide the progress of a review of the future of the…
Today Wild Justice submitted a response to the Defra consultation on general licences – it is copied below. Wild Justice said: There is no scientific justification for general licences to…
Michael Gove has taken back control of issuing general licences from Natural England (possibly because Gove’s predecessors as Secretary of State had depleted Natural England’s staff resources so much that…
