Hen Harrier Day 11 August
The speakers confirmed so far are the three Wild Justice directors (Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery) and Iolo Williams (TV presenter), Gill Lewis (author), Tim Birch (Der...
Response due from Natural England.
Natural England should be replying to Wild Justice’s Pre-Action Protocol letter over General Licence GL26 by 4pm tomorrow. We’ll be very interested to see what they have to say.
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Wild Justice statement on new general licences.
Wild Justice says: Odd isn’t it? Natural England consulted with Defra in April and revoked these licences and then Defra consulted with Natural England in June and reinstated them....
Evidence base for GL26 is threadbare
This is the section in the Licence Determination document received from Natural England to justify the publication of General Licence GL26 to ‘authorise’ control of Car...
Farmers Weekly on our new legal challenge
As we wrote yesterday, Farmers Weekly has now published a news story about our new legal challenge on their website – here it is. It’s a fair enough account of things. ...
More on our latest legal challenge
Because the magazine/website Sporting Gun was unique among shooting magazines in actually asking us about what we were doing when Natural England revoked the General Licences GL04,...
Our new legal challenge: General Licence GL26
On Friday morning Wild Justice launched a new legal challenge of general licences issued by Natural England. The formal legal letter is reproduced in full below. Wild Justice is ch...
A message from Defra
Received from Defra yesterday afternoon: Dear colleague, We intend to announce shortly how we will proceed on general licensing, following an evidence-gathering exercise undertak...