Wild Justice 45 - Beavers and more

 

Good morning!   Last week was an active one for Wild Justice.   Beavers: after sending you the last Wild Justice newsletter on Monday we contacted the small but very effective organisation Trees for Life about their legal challenge of Nature Scotland (the statutory agency formerly known as Scottish Natural Heritage) on behalf of Beavers. Trees for Life are challenging Nature Scotland over its failure to make killing of Beavers, a protected species, a genuinely last resort.  Trees for Life say that Nature Scotland has issued licences to landowners to kill Beavers without properly considering other options such as translocating Beavers to other areas of Scotland.   We support Trees for Life in this legal challenge and transferred £5000 to their bank account on Monday lunchtime. We wish them every success with their legal challenge.  If you'd like to contribute too then the link to their crowdfunder is here - click here.   Thank you: we've received lots of lovely messages of support and quite a few donations in the last week - here are some recent examples - click here.  Your support both moral and financial, means an awful lot to all three of us.  Thank you.   Our Welsh legal challenge: our challenge to the general licences in Wales was heard on Friday.  As best we can tell, the day went very well for us with our barrister putting our case strongly and clearly and, in our admittedly biased opinion, doing a brilliant job in rebutting the arguments of Natural Resources Wales, DEFRA and BASC.   We've written a long blog about what the challenge is about, how it fits into our work on general licences across the UK and the process that ones goes through in a judicial review - click here.   The Judge indicated that he plans to hand down his judgment in early January and we are grateful to him for aiming to deliver a rapid judgment on our case.  We are hopeful of a judgment that will futher improve the rationality and effectiveness of general licences in Wales and that judgment will be closely watched by all UK administrations.   That's it for now.   Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).   This email was sent to you because you subscribed to it through the Wild Justice website or through our recent e-action where you ticked a box.  Thank you. We will only use your personal details to send you the Wild Justice newsletter. We will not give or sell your details to anyone else.  You can unsubscribe at any time: there is an unsubscribe button at the foot of this email or you can reply to this email and ask us to remove you from the list (the former will happen immediately, the latter might take a few days).     Photo credit: Beaver by Scotland the Big Picture

 

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