Progress on Northern Ireland general licences
The current Northern Ireland general licences are shockingly bad – as we wrote and told the Northern Ireland authorities back in the spring (click here for details). There ar...
Thank you Gill!
Gill Lewis is a children’s author who has written many books about issues in nature conservation. Her books Sky Dancer and Eagle Warrior are very specifically about illegal k...
What that Shooting Times article might have said
In the Shooting Times of 10 February there was an article entitled Shooting for a Perfect Ten which purported to be an account of a day’s shooting where the aim was to shoot ...
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...
