We write to Defra about gamebirds and avian flu 2nd December 2022 This summer has seen unprecedented levels of highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds in the UK (and elsewhere). In… Read more >
Update: The Schrodinger’s Pheasant conundrum. 11th March 2022 You might remember our recent head-scratcher involving gamebirds; when is a Pheasant livestock, and when is it wildlife? Today news… Read more >
Delaying tactics 11th February 2022 We’ve learned, since our public launch on 13 February 2019, that public bodies almost always try to delay any legal… Read more >
Wild Justice starts legal challenge of DEFRA’s general licence GL42. 7th February 2022 Our infographic above captures the absurdity of DEFRA’s position on whether birds such as Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges are or… Read more >
General licence confusion continues – Schrodinger’s Pheasant 4th January 2022 Yesterday this piece appeared in the Guardian online – we guess it will be in today’s print edition. The story… Read more >
Have Pheasant releases decreased in England? 15th November 2021 Last autumn, just over a year ago, Wild Justice won a very significant victory by challenging the lawfulness of the… Read more >
Our letter on the start of the pheasant-shooting season 11th October 2021 We were delighted to see our letter published in various regional newspapers in the north of England at the beginning… Read more >
Today is the opening day of the Pheasant-shooting season 1st October 2021 Today is the first day of the Pheasant-shooting season. Pheasants are not native to the UK, they were brought here… Read more >
