Judge rules planning permission for outdoor adventure centre in Pembrokeshire is unlawful because of environmental concerns In a victory for […]
We’ll be attending the inaugural Wild Summit on 11 September 2025 – an environmental extravaganza organised by Wildlife & Countryside Link which […]
Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill Arguments for a legal challenge against the government […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM DEFRA, 10 JULY 2025: Toxic lead ammunition banned to protect Britain’s countryside Red kites and white-tailed eagles […]
Protecting Ceibwr – by Gill Lewis, with the help and contributions from many residents of the community of Moylgrove and […]
Community thoughts on the Judicial Review of the Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park Authority (PCNPA) planning decision to approve an outdoor […]
You will remember that we asked you to sign our most recent petition to ban driven grouse shooting and over […]
PRESS RELEASE: Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has issued a legal challenge to the government’s claim that the new Planning […]
We recently launched a crowdfunder to support the legal challenge we are taking, in partnership with our friends at The […]
A legal challenge by wildlife groups The Badger Trust and Wild Justice against the granting of badger culling licences has […]
The UK Government recently announced a public consultation on proposed changes to The Heather and Grass etc Burning (England) Regulations […]
Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament […]
Wild Justice slams environmental provisions in government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has slammed the […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition has passed the milestone of 100,000 signatures and is now standing at over 101,000 […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition has passed the milestone of 85,000 signatures and is now standing at over 88,000 […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition has reached the important milestone of 75,000 signatures. 25,000 more signatures, by 22 May, […]
Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has appointed Bob Elliot as its first Chief Executive. Bob has worked in the nature […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition is flying with very nearly 62,000 signatures. Thank you to all who have signed […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
The grouse shooting industry doesn’t like to talk about raptor (bird of prey) killing because it’s wildlife crime. It’s not […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition is flying with over 55,000 signatures. Thank you to all who have signed – […]
Wild Justice is campaigning for driven grouse shooting to be banned. Our petition to get driven grouse shooting banned is […]
Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition is flying with over 47,000 signatures. Thank you to all who have signed – […]
We are often asked why the RSPB does not support our petition (and previous ones) to ban driven grouse shooting. […]
It’s been another busy year for Wild Justice; here’s a very quick run through some of our highlights of 2024. […]
…and wild! Wishing you a Merry Christmas from the small team of us here at Wild Justice!
Our recent report Collateral Damage showed that the Rodenticide Stewardship Regime (or scheme) is failing. It was supposed to lead […]
We published the Lost Nature report last week, which was written by researchers at the University of Sheffield and showed […]
Below you will find two versions of the Lost Nature report; a summary version (20 pages) and a full report […]
Wildlife crime is an issue close to the heart of Wild Justice – indeed, the frustration we felt after the […]
On Wednesday, the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park approved a planning proposal for a visitor centre, an adventure sports hub, for […]
One of the first acts of the new Labour government has been to signal that it wants more houses built […]
Environmental campaign group Wild Justice has lodged a complaint to the Competition and Marketing Authority about false claims made by […]
This was the scene on a Surrey heathland managed by Natural England – a heath with a panoply of designations […]
Wild Justice has received information about an event on a Surrey lowland heath (which is a Site of Special Scientific […]
On Saturday 22nd June, tens of thousands of you took to the streets for nature and for the climate. Here […]
Introduction In the run-up to the general election we are publishing guest blogs which review the political parties’ election manifestos. […]
I am a planning and environmental campaigner, co-founder of the Community Planning Alliance, founder of Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action […]
I am an 18 year old conservationist and naturalist. I studied countryside management at Nottingham Trent University. This will be […]
I am a planning and environmental campaigner, co-founder of the Community Planning Alliance, founder of Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action […]
I am a wildlife ecologist who has worked on reintroduction projects for species such as the water vole, Eurasian beaver […]
I am one of the co-founders and co-directors of Wild Justice but I write this in a personal capacity. I […]
I am a planning and environmental campaigner, co-founder of the Community Planning Alliance, founder of Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action […]
Wild Justice is one of a large group of environmental organisations taking a legal challenge against the Westminster government’s failure […]
Our new report – guidance for charities and organisations in the environmental sector on what can be said during the […]
If you’re joining us at the Restore Nature Now march on 22nd June, here are two PDF documents of a […]
Six years ago, before Wild Justice came into existence, two of us, Ruth with the Scottish Raptor Study Group and […]
Back in the summer we asked you to respond to the Defra hedgerow consultation. We said that it was dull […]
Wild Justice has partnered with the League Against Cruel Sports (Scotland) to fund the development of a new laboratory test […]
In spring 2020, Wild Justice decided to supply schools and libraries with some books, choosing titles relevant to wildlife and […]
UPDATE (16:30 16 February): we received a response from Defra yesterday and having spoken to our legal team today we […]
Here’s a very quick run through some highlights of 2023. It’s been a good year for our legal challenges. The […]
Merry Christmas, from the small team of us here at Wild Justice! May your break bring you rest and peace, […]
Today we are asking you, please, to respond to a consultation by the Health and Safety Executive on the use […]
Press release from Leigh Day (25 October 2023) Northern Ireland badger cull by shooting ruled unlawful in High Court A […]
Earlier this year, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) opened a public consultation about its proposed measures to regulate the release of […]
Last weekend Wild Justice took to the seas – venturing out into Poole Harbour, Dorset, with two boat loads of […]
Today we are asking you, please, to respond to the Defra hedgerow consultation. Does that sound dull and unimportant? Well, […]
Two years ago we sent out a survey through our newsletter and summarised the responses in five blogs over the […]
Two years ago we sent out a survey through our newsletter and summarised the responses in five blogs over the […]
Last December we wrote about how nine-year-old artist and naturalist Benji Fallow had chosen to donate the proceeds from his […]
Our newsletter is received by over 30,000 subscribers and shared around and read by very many more. We obviously know […]
We are delighted to have won two awards, voted by the readers of Birdwatch, in the 2022 Birders’ Choice Awards. […]
9-year-old Benjamin Fallow is a young artist and naturalist. He draws and paints from nature, and loves to draw out […]
Wildlife & Countryside LINK, a coalition of 67 wildlife organisations, including Wild Justice, has today published its 6th annual report […]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO RAIL STRIKES. IT’LL NOW TAKE PLACE IN SPRING 2023. On Sunday […]
We’d like to invite you to take c20 minutes to respond to a consultation on general licences in Northern Ireland. […]
As many of you already know, we are privileged to be able to work with some brilliant environmental lawyers at […]
Over the last month, we’ve been getting ready for a potential challenge of a proposed Badger cull in Northern Ireland. […]
Three years ago Wild Justice had its public launch. We’re still very much new kids on the conservation block and […]
Gamekeeper John Orrey, 63, of Hall Farm, Kneeton, Nottinghamshire was sentenced today at Nottingham Magistrates Court (see here) after being […]
Wild Justice is one of a very large number of NGO signatories to this open letter to the statutory conservation […]
Yesterday the Judicial Review and Courts Bill was debated in Committee. The Opposition were trying to get rid of Clause […]
This new ‘guidance’ from Natural England looks very worrying to us. The whole drift of this guidance is to allow […]
Huge congratulations to David Wolfe QC, who has featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list published today. David is a […]
Yesterday the Westminster government announced its intentions to crack down on cruel and illegal hare coursing. Wild Justice welcomes these […]
We get hundreds of emails a week and all of them are read. We can’t possibly reply to them all […]
Here’s a quick run through our work in 2021 – for more details see individual blog posts: January: our challenge […]
Huge congratulations to Wild Justice co-director Chris Packham who has been voted Outdoor Personality of the Year in The Great […]
Three years ago today, Wild Justice was incorporated as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. We think of 13 February […]
You have sent 37,000 emails to UK parliamentarians through our e-action, Uplands for people, for the climate and for wildlife. […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In yesterday’s Wild Justice newsletter we asked our over 40,000 subscribers (you can subscribe for free here http://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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sign up to our newsletter – http://wildjustice.org.uk/contact/ Read our blog – http://wildjustice.org.uk/blog/ Donate to our work – http://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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Mark Avery, co-director of Wild Justice writes: It’s over a fortnight ago that I drove for three hours to Yorkshire […]
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 […]
For more information – click here.
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 […]
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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