Northern Ireland General Licences expire today
The three Northern Ireland general licences, TPG1, TPG2 and TPG3 which purport to authorise the killing of specific listed bird […]
The three Northern Ireland general licences, TPG1, TPG2 and TPG3 which purport to authorise the killing of specific listed bird […]
Our e-action, Uplands for people, for the climate and for wildlife was launched over a month ago. Almost every MP […]
Thank you for email. I appreciate you taking the time to share your further thoughts. I recognise that grouse shooting […]
Thank you for your email in relation to Scotland’s uplands. My party and I believe that our natural environment is […]
Thank you for contacting me about the protection of uplands. I support investment in the restoration of a variety of […]
Thank you for your e-mail and for raising your concerns with me. I totally agree that we face a climate […]
Thank you for contacting **** **** regarding your concerns about the Welsh uplands. I strongly believe in the importance of […]
Thank you for your email – I share your concerns regarding preservation and biodiversification of uplands in Scotland. In regard to […]
Yesterday, Natural Resources Wales launched a consultation on their general licences. The consultation is lengthy but that is because it […]
Last summer we wrote to 43 local authorities in England and Wales about their use of glyphosate-based herbicides. Although herbicide […]
Wild Justice has contacted a range of local authorities to quiz them about their use of, and policies on, the […]
Thank you for your email about our upland areas. I would like to assure you that I am committed to […]
Thank you for your email highlighting your concerns over the climate and nature emergency we face and the importance of […]
Many thanks for writing to me on the protection of Scotland’s uplands for people, climate, and wildlife. The Scottish Greens […]
The Welsh Government is committed to accelerating work on the National Forest for Wales in this Senedd term. This includes […]
Thank you for getting in touch to raise awareness for such an important issue. Wales is often defined by its […]
Our e-action, Uplands for people, for the climate and for wildlife was launched a week ago and already almost every […]
Our beautiful birds of prey deserve all the help they can get Having just watched Hen Harrier Day, we were […]
Our e-action, Uplands for people, for the climate and for wildlife was launched on Saturday. The headline number According to […]
We’re asking you, please, to send this message to all politicians elected in each of the four UK parliaments. Just […]
To help you through the 2.5 hours… 6mins: the countdown of 10 issues begins – Lucy Lapwing talks to Josh […]
‘New reports’ come along every year at this time from the grouse shooting industry. In 2016 Ian Botham was using […]
You may have seen that there is controversy over what might appear to be a dull technical document issued recently […]
Wild Justice issued papers last week challenging DEFRA’s feeble new Burning Regulations. Predictably, BASC, a pro-shooting organisation which is always […]
Wild Justice issues legal challenge to new rules on burning of peatlands A legal challenge to new rules governing […]
See four previous blogs to catch up on this story: 28 May, Alleged breach of general licences; 2 July, The […]
Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and so we file our accounts with Companies House and pay […]
We get some lovely letters and notes and cards and emails. This note was one of many which arrived this […]
The current Northern Ireland general licences are shockingly bad – as we wrote and told the Northern Ireland authorities back […]
Gill Lewis is a children’s author who has written many books about issues in nature conservation. Her books Sky Dancer […]
In the Shooting Times of 10 February there was an article entitled Shooting for a Perfect Ten which purported to […]
Dear Shooting Times, We write to you to draw to your attention the inaccuracy of an article published in your […]
Some time ago we told our newsletter subscribers, and wrote a blog (see here), about an article in the Shooting […]
The Wild Justice petition, signed by many readers of this blog and many, many others across the UK, including in […]
Early this morning the joint NGO #stateofnature petition passed 200,000 signatures. Wild Justice supporters played a large part in helping […]
We heard on Friday that we had lost our challenge of the legality of free shooting of Badgers. It is […]
Yesterday Wild Justice sent the following letter to Natural England questioning the quality of their assessment of the feasibility of […]
After many false starts and long delays due to Covid19, the Westminster Hall debate on banning driven grouse shooting, triggered […]
Note: this blog was originally posted on 28 May, and was temporarily removed after a few days. It is now […]
In yesterday’s Wild Justice newsletter we asked our over 40,000 subscribers (you can subscribe for free here https://wildjustice.org.uk/contact/ ) six […]
Introduction: Yesterday we described the results of tests for lead levels which we commissioned on Game Mix and Pheasant breasts […]
Introduction: Here we describe the results of analysis of samples of game meat purchased online or from Sainsbury’s stores. The […]
Later this week we will publish the results of laboratory analyses of lead levels in game meat sold in Sainsbury’s […]
Later this week we will publish the results of laboratory tests that we commissioned to determine the amount of toxic […]
As a member of the coalition Wildlife & Countryside LINK (58 organisations working together to campaign for improved environmental policy), […]
We wrote to NRW’s Chair some time ago and did not receive an acknowledgement (although they say that one was […]
Over the Easter period we’ve post five short summaries of the responses – just for interest really. This is the […]
We asked you: These are difficult figures to compare with UK averages but it is fairly clear that Wild Justice […]
Over the Easter period we’ll post five short summaries of the responses – this is the third. We asked you: […]
We sent out a survey in our newletter #57 and 8640 of you responded – which is amazing! Thank you. […]
You’ll see that our newsletter subscribers are primarily, but not exclusively, UK based and from right across the UK. Very […]
Dear DEFRA, we asked you at a so-called stakeholder meeting in early November about the conditions applying to your (then) […]
Thanks to you, this matter will be debated in Westminster Hall later this spring. You’ll be able to watch the […]
Dear Sir David We are writing to you following Wild Justice’s challenge of NRW’s general licences and following subsequent discussions […]
Thank you to hundreds of Wild Justice supporters who responded to the DEFRA consultation on gamebird releases – see here, […]
Hundreds and hundreds of you are responding to the DEFRA gamebird consultation and telling us that you have done so. […]
Many hundreds of you are responding to the DEFRA gamebird consultation and telling us that you have done so – […]
Hundreds of you are responding to the DEFRA gamebird consultation and telling us that you have done so – here […]
We have been amazed by the number of people who have already told us that they have responded to the […]
What the consultation is all about: Because of Wild Justice’s legal challenge settled in court last October DEFRA must take […]
Wild Justice is one of over 50 wildlife groups asking you to send a strong message in favour of wildlife […]
Good morning! Wild Justice is one of over 50 wildlife groups asking you to send a strong message in […]
This consultation was released today – over two weeks later than we were told. The consultation period is three weeks, […]
Last week, a package arrived for Wild Justice in the post and it contained a cheque, a letter and some […]
There’s a slogan on Sainsbury’s website stating that its vision is to become the UK’s ‘most trusted retailer’. Some might […]
Two years ago today we launched Wild Justice. Since then our action has: led the reform of general licences across […]
Back in October, Wild Justice won a historic victory regarding the regulation of shooting when DEFRA committed to bring in […]
Yesterday our petition to end the shooting of Badgers passed 100,000 signatures. Thank you for all your support. This means […]
In a blog here on Monday we asked the GWCT to fact-check the DEFRA myth that non-native gamebirds have no […]
Wild Justice mounted a legal challenge to make DEFRA review harmful gamebird impacts which concluded last October when DEFRA agreed […]
Our e-petition has passed 88,000 signatures with several thousand signatures being added yesterday. Yes, we had given this petition a […]
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation is grumpily coming to terms with the changes to their job description that we explained back […]
We bank with Triodos Bank because we like their environmental credentials – and they are efficient and friendly. Over the […]
Earlier this morning, His Honour Justice Jarman handed down his judgment on Wild Justice’s judicial review of Natural Resources Wales’s […]
The forthcoming Westminster Hall debate on banning driven grouse shooting, triggered by our successful 2019 petition and scheduled to take […]
We are waiting patiently for the judgment on our judicial review of the Welsh general licences. There is no point […]
This petition was submitted in July 2019, published by the Westminster Parliament in August 2019, reached 100,000 signatures in September […]
Thanks to the legal challenges made by Wild Justice, and our subsequent lobbying and that of others, the general licences […]
Following reforms introduced as a result of Wild Justice’s legal challenges, the job description for gamekeepers in England has changed […]
Sign up to our newsletter – https://wildjustice.org.uk/contact/ Read our blog – https://wildjustice.org.uk/blog/ Donate to our work – https://wildjustice.org.uk/wildlife-donations/ Folow us […]
This blog is about the licensing system for killing birds in Wales which is licensed by Natural Resources Wales. There […]
Thank you for all your messages of support – these come in a wide variety of forms and we get […]
If you are signed up to our free, occasional, newsletter you will have noticed that we asked for suggestions of […]
Wild Justice Director Ruth Tingay was interviewed on Planet Pod recently, discussing wildlife crime in the UK with podcast host […]
Today DEFRA released new general licences which will apply in England from 1 January 2021 for the calendar year. This […]
Wild Justice secures an historic environmental legal victory Just days away from facing a barrage of legal arguments in court […]
Earlier this year we proposed a new fund to help the police tackle wildlife crime. The idea was that this […]
Tomorrow is the RSPB AGM and one of many interesting items will be the revelation of the RSPB’s new improved […]
We’ve just come to the end of Week 2 of our Badger petition – and we have over 55,000 signatures […]
This story in the Guardian today backs up our worries about the impacts of massive, unregulated releases of gamebirds on […]
We’ve just had the first week of our Badger petition – and we have over 48,000 signatures already! Thank you […]
It’s Tony Juniper’s birthday today and the House of Commons Petitions Committee have inadvertently given him a present from Wild […]
And on page 5, in the Chief Exec’s statement, after ‘We’ve had cuts to our budgets’ comes this… Killing things […]
In a week where gamebird shooting has been in the media spotlight following its exemption from the so-called ‘rule of […]
Last week we had a setback on our Badger case when we heard that the Hon Mr Justice Johnson had […]
An amazing total in just 24 days. If you’d like to continue to take action on this issue then sign […]
Three weeks ago on Hen Harrier Day (online) we launched an e-action with Hen Harrier Action and the RSPB. Since […]
Yesterday evening we heard that we have been refused permission for judicial review of Natural England’s licensing of Badger shooting. […]
This review forms a major part of DEFRA’s response to our legal challenge over the impacts on sites of high […]
Huge thanks to Duncan from WILD Sounds for a very generous donation of £600, collected from sales of Dara McAnulty’s […]
A couple of weeks ago the three of us (Chris Packham, Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay) were interviewed by raptor […]
Exactly 10 days ago we launched a joint e-action with the RSPB and Hen Harrier Action on Hen Harrier Day. […]
Good news! This morning we heard from our legal team that the Hon Mr Justice Griffiths has granted us permission […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Chris writes: Today I sent this letter to Nicola Sturgeon and Roseanna Cunningham. I’ve had enough of the criminal slaughter […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
Yesterday evening we sent out a newsletter asking our supporters to email Nicola Sturgeon about the scale of wildlife crime […]
There is a lot of comment about Wild Justice from others (we may even have been given a tangential mention […]
This time last week we were approached by Humane Society International – UK offering us support for our challenge of […]
Wildlife campaigners launch legal case to challenge the humaneness of the badger cull Wildlife campaign group Wild Justice has launched […]
Wild Justice has filed its first-year accounts with Companies House – click here. We also paid our Corporation Tax last […]
Wild Justice has been in fairly lengthy and detailed correspondence with Natural England and DEFRA on the matter of Badger […]
We heard this morning that Wild Justice’s application for judicial review of the impacts of vast releases of non-native gamebirds […]
The RSPB has asked for views on 7 draft principles around the issue of gamebird shooting. It is expected that […]
Wild Justice is one of very many organisations and individuals asking DEFRA to facilitate Beaver reintroductions in England. Here is […]
In April we announced a new fund to help the police tackle wildlife crime. This Raptor Forensics Fund will help […]
Thank you so very much. Our third major crowdfunder has been fully funded by over 900 generous donors. The English […]
Natural England is waking up to the shambolic state of knowledge amongst those seeking licences for lethal killing of birds […]
Following our launch last week of a new fund to help support police investigations in to the illegal persecution of […]
Our crowdfunder is approaching its target – thank you to everyone who has contributed at this very difficult time. We […]
Wild Justice has proposed a new fund to help the police tackle wildlife crime. This fund would help speed up […]
This card arrived in the post recently… And on the back was the message; Dear Wild Justice I thought I […]
This post describes a piece of scientific analysis carried out by Wild Justice and friends. Estimating the occurrence of Common […]
Natural Resources Wales authorises the uncapped, unchecked, unregulated killing of Jackdaws all over Wales through its General Licence GL004. This […]
This post is about our legal challenge of the general licences issued by the public body, Natural Resources Wales, on […]
We’re pretty accustomed to abuse from the shooting community – often from individuals but increasingly from their representative body BASC. […]
Yesterday Wild Justice’s lawyers filed our application for a judicial review of Natural Resources Wales’s (NRW’s) issuing of general licences […]
Scaremongering and hysteria is the response we’ve come to expect from many within the game-shooting world whenever Wild Justice launches […]
The Wild Justice e-petition which reached 100,000 signatures on Day 20 of its existence back in early September will be […]
Here is another paragraph from the Wild Justice witness statement supporting our legal challenge; The scale of gamebird releases is […]
The Guardian covered our legal challenge – very accurately – click here. One of us, Mark, was on talkRADIO this […]
On Monday afternoon our lawyers lodged court papers calling for a ban of releases of Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges into […]
On Thursday evening, Wild Justice held a small event in London with friends, colleagues, donors, potential donors, journalists and others. […]
As a result of Wild Justice’s legal challenge of last year and recent pokes for updates, DEFRA announced this on […]
Last year Wild Justice directors Chris Packham and Mark Avery were invited to the annual Game Fair to face a […]
We were very lucky. Considering the wind was blowing and it was raining when we arrived, it was unexpected that […]
DEFRA has rolled out the existing scientifically flawed and, we believe, unlawful general licences for several more months. This is […]
We launched Wild Justice a year ago today. We’re just getting into our stride and looking forward to Year 2. […]
Here are the most pertinent parts of a letter sent to DEFRA yesterday; and then; We trust that is clear…
Monday – receive response from DEFRA on gamebird releases – we are waiting for our lawyers to advise us on […]
Yesterday we sent this letter to Natural Resources Wales. It won’t have come as a shock to them as we […]
Wild Justice is looking forward to the day when our successful e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will be debated […]
On Sunday 9 February Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery from Wild Justice will join lots of other birders and raptor […]
This seems an appropriate day for this card and its message and enclosure to arrive in the post. Wildlife knows […]
We received this on Thursday afternoon but didn’t actually read it until Thursday evening (which is quicker than we get […]
A week today, Friday 7 February, Wild Justice co-founders Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay are visiting the RSPB Titchwell nature […]
On Tuesday Wild Justice had a long and detailed meeting with our legal team and a group of experts on […]
Yesterday Wild Justice’s lawyers sent this letter to DEFRA. Paragraphs 16, 17 and 18 sum it all up pretty well. […]
Media speculation that DEFRA is woefully unprepared to issue new, lawful, sensible general licences is probably correct. The response of […]
Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery from Wild Justice went raptor watching yesterday afternoon at a rather chilly Wallasea Island RSPB […]
Maybe it was optimistic to think that the shooting industry would be eager to see the issue of the conservation […]
We launched our fundraising drive for the Wild Justice Fighting Fund less than a week ago but it has already […]
Today, indeed this very afternoon, our lawyers have sent the following Pre-Action Protocol letter to the Secretary of State for […]
We’ve been getting payments through PayPal, transfers to our bank account and cheques in the post. All are very, very […]
There are lots of nature reserves around the UK where you might see birds of prey this winter, including, if […]
Wild Justice launched 11 months ago and in the month running up to our birthday we are asking you for […]
As a member of Wildlife and Countryside Link, Wild Justice signed a recent letter to Theresa Villiers asking for an […]
Today is our birthday! On 26 October last year we registered Wild Justice as a not for profit company. It […]
Dear Tony Open letter to Natural England Chair, Board and staff It was good to meet you and Marian two […]
Natural Resources Wales (the equivalent of Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry England rolled into one) has issued its […]
Chris Packham, pictured above holding a Wild Justice postcard promoting our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, and wearing an […]
Huge congratulations to Wild Justice co-director Chris Packham, who received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Mirror Animal Hero Awards […]
We have received many requests, pleas and some communications akin to demands, that we take legal action against Defra over […]
Everyone is looking at general licences following our successful legal challenge of the system, and in the knowledge that further […]
Yesterday, after nearly three months of cogitation, Defra agreed that the law requires them to assess the ecological impacts of […]
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) ordered a review of licencing arrangements following a legal challenge in England by campaign group Wild […]
We sent the following letter to the Defra legal team yesterday. As you can see, they are either in some […]
We are thrilled by the support that our e-petition has received – thank you to all our supporters. This matter […]
To somewhat use the words of one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs, at Hen Harrier Day at Carsington the […]
Wild Justice is playing its small part in working on general environmental issues with the wider conservation community. We were […]
Wild Justice was quite busy at the Bird Fair over the Friday-Sunday. Friday morning started at 09:30 with a talk […]
If you are at the Bird Fair today then please take a postcard away with you. This postcard: It’s obviously, […]
The three directors of Wild Justice have a 5-year track record of calling for a ban of intensive Red Grouse […]
What wonderful speakers there were at Hen Harrier Day! We don’t have images of them all, but here are some. […]
The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust were wonderful partners at yesterday’s Hen Harrier Day event at Carsington Water. Not only was Tim […]
Yesterday’s Hen Harrier Day event was a great success. Here are just a few images of the day (all by […]
The weather forecast is good for Sunday – light showers and a breeze! 12 midday – 5pm, 11th August Carsington […]
Our crowdfunder is £4000 short of being fully funded – that’s amazing. Thank you to all who have contributed. This […]
Our challenge to Defra over the impact of the release of 50+million non-native gamebirds is clearly giving them some difficulty. […]
The Daily Telegraph published a story about the absence of Chris Packham and Mark Avery from the Game Fair on […]
On Friday, our lawyers sent the following letter to Natural England regarding their evidence to the Efra Committtee and their […]
On Friday, Wild Justice’s lawyers wrote to Defra and Natural England about general licences. The beginning and end of the […]
Wild Justice directors Chris Packham and Mark Avery were supposed to be having a grilling from the Jeremy Paxman of […]
Three weeks ago Chris Packham posted this image – it’s the three Wild Justice co-directors, Mark Avery, Chris Packham and […]
Wild Justice’s Mark Avery and Chris Packham had both been invited to Friday’s Game Fair in Hertfordshire to present our […]
The Wild Justice crowdfunder to raise funding for a legal challenge of Defra (until yesterday actually of Michael Gove but […]
On Thursday morning, at 10am, Wild Justice launched its current crowdfunder to raise the massive sum of £44,500 in order […]
Wild Justice is crowdfunding so that we can take our legal challenge of Defra all the way through the courts. […]
GWCT is clearly rattled by the Wild Justice legal challenge – even though it is to Defra. Rarely do we […]
Last week Wild Justice sent a Pre Action Protocol letter to Michael Gove at Defra requiring him to assess the […]
Mark Avery, co-director of Wild Justice writes: It’s over a fortnight ago that I drove for three hours to Yorkshire […]
Preparations for Hen Harrier Day are proceeding well – although setting up an event is always a bit nerve wracking. […]
This letter was sent to Natural England yesterday and copied to the EFRA Committee.
From a sixth form college in the south of England – thank you very much indeed. We’re very grateful for […]
On Wednesday morning at 8am in a remote part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in […]
Henry Morris is running through the grouse moors of the north of England this coming week to raise money for […]
For more information – click here.
The speakers confirmed so far are the three Wild Justice directors (Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery) and Iolo […]
Natural England should be replying to Wild Justice’s Pre-Action Protocol letter over General Licence GL26 by 4pm tomorrow. We’ll be […]
Wild Justice says: Odd isn’t it? Natural England consulted with Defra in April and revoked these licences and then Defra […]
This is the section in the Licence Determination document received from Natural England to justify the publication of General Licence […]
As we wrote yesterday, Farmers Weekly has now published a news story about our new legal challenge on their website […]
Because the magazine/website Sporting Gun was unique among shooting magazines in actually asking us about what we were doing when […]
On Friday morning Wild Justice launched a new legal challenge of general licences issued by Natural England. The formal legal […]
Received from Defra yesterday afternoon: Dear colleague, We intend to announce shortly how we will proceed on general licensing, […]
It looks like there will only be one Hen Harrier Day event in the UK in 2019 – but everyone […]
You may remember this handy visual aid published by BASC a while ago – it shows the scale of revocation […]
If you are interested in what Natural England had to say about general licences and the revocation of GL04, GL05 […]
Wild Justice was founded by Dr Mark Avery, Chris Packham CBE and Dr Ruth Tingay in October 2018. It exists […]
Wild Justice noted with interest the Efra Committee meeting which took evidence yesterday from Natural England. Wild Justice will make […]
Natural England’s Deputy Chair Lord Blencathra (who was Acting Chair at the time of the decision to revoke the General […]
Wild Justice is pleased, but not remotely surprised, to see that the RSPB has followed our lead on the general […]
A few days ago we thanked BASC for their response to the Defra consultation on general licences because it clarified […]
We are grateful to BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) for providing a very helpful visual aid to guide […]
Today Wild Justice submitted a response to the Defra consultation on general licences – it is copied below. Wild Justice […]
Michael Gove has taken back control of issuing general licences from Natural England (possibly because Gove’s predecessors as Secretary of […]
Wild Justice’s first legal case was a challenge of the General Licences GL04, GL05 and GL06 which ‘authorised’ the lethal […]
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