GWCT caught up in unlawful licensing by Defra
Last week we won a legal challenge, after Defra finally conceded that the issuing of some of their 2023 gamebird […]
Last week we won a legal challenge, after Defra finally conceded that the issuing of some of their 2023 gamebird […]
Last week, after months of spinning things out, Defra finally conceded that the issuing of licences for gamebird releases in […]
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has announced it has provided advice to the Welsh Government to regulate the release of significant […]
Good morning! On Monday we told you what we have heard about the process of assessing licences for gamebird releases […]
Good morning! Yesterday we told you what we have heard about the process of assessing licences for gamebird releases by […]
Let us tell you a story – some of it is known, some of it is surmise based on anonymous […]
Earlier this year, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) opened a public consultation about its proposed measures to regulate the release of […]
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is consulting on future regulations to control gamebird releases. Their plans are to adopt a very […]
Today Wild Justice sent a Pre-Action Protocol letter to Dr Therese Coffey, the Secretary of State at Defra, and named […]
We have received a response from NE to our information requests about Dendles Wood (see here). It reveals a sorry […]
You might have heard about Dartmoor in the news quite a lot recently – see, for example, here. In January […]
Defra really doesn’t like to rock the boat by reforming anything to do with recreational shooting in England. We suspect […]
This summer has seen unprecedented levels of highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds in the UK (and elsewhere). In […]
You might remember our recent head-scratcher involving gamebirds; when is a Pheasant livestock, and when is it wildlife? Today news […]
We’ve learned, since our public launch on 13 February 2019, that public bodies almost always try to delay any legal […]
Our infographic above captures the absurdity of DEFRA’s position on whether birds such as Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges are or […]
Yesterday this piece appeared in the Guardian online – we guess it will be in today’s print edition. The story […]
Last autumn, just over a year ago, Wild Justice won a very significant victory by challenging the lawfulness of the […]
We were delighted to see our letter published in various regional newspapers in the north of England at the beginning […]
Today is the first day of the Pheasant-shooting season. Pheasants are not native to the UK, they were brought here […]
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 […]
This consultation was released today – over two weeks later than we were told. The consultation period is three weeks, […]
Two years ago today we launched Wild Justice. Since then our action has: led the reform of general licences across […]
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 […]
Wild Justice statement on gamebird licensing Just days away from facing a barrage of legal arguments in court (on 3 […]
Tomorrow is the RSPB AGM and one of many interesting items will be the revelation of the RSPB’s new improved […]
This story in the Guardian today backs up our worries about the impacts of massive, unregulated releases of gamebirds on […]
In a week where gamebird shooting has been in the media spotlight following its exemption from the so-called ‘rule of […]
This review forms a major part of DEFRA’s response to our legal challenge over the impacts on sites of high […]
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 […]
This post describes a piece of scientific analysis carried out by Wild Justice and friends. Estimating the occurrence of Common […]
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 […]
As a result of Wild Justice’s legal challenge of last year and recent pokes for updates, DEFRA announced this on […]
Here are the most pertinent parts of a letter sent to DEFRA yesterday; and then; We trust that is clear…
Maybe it was optimistic to think that the shooting industry would be eager to see the issue of the conservation […]
Today, indeed this very afternoon, our lawyers have sent the following Pre-Action Protocol letter to the Secretary of State for […]
Yesterday, after nearly three months of cogitation, Defra agreed that the law requires them to assess the ecological impacts of […]
We sent the following letter to the Defra legal team yesterday. As you can see, they are either in some […]
Our crowdfunder is £4000 short of being fully funded – that’s amazing. Thank you to all who have contributed. This […]
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 […]
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 […]