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…
Wild Justice’s first legal case was a challenge of the General Licences GL04, GL05 and GL06 which ‘authorised’ the lethal control of 16 species of bird. Similar licences have been…
