Good morning! Autumnal isn't it?
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A week today we are going to court,
virtually, to appeal the decision that we should not be allowed to
challenge the lawfulness of Natural England's licensing of the inhumane
Badger cull. It would be wrong to speculate on the outcome but we will
let you know how it goes in a week's time. Meanwhile, our petition on
the same subject is whizzing along and should pass 60,000 signatures
today (and we are not three weeks into its 26 weeks yet). Please have a
look at this petition, share it with your friends and sign it if you
agree with us, please click here. Thank you.
In November we will be back in court,
on 3 and 4 November, challenging the release of tens of millions of
non-native Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges into the countryside. At
its AGM on Saturday the RSPB came out in favour of reducing the scale of
gamebird releases but our legal case, which we started over a year ago,
aims to do this through a legal challenge and has been instrumental in
raising this issue.
And then in December, on 13th, our
challenge of Welsh general licences will come to court where we dispute
the legality of the general licences issued by Natural Resources Wales.
We want to see the end to casual licensing of casual killing of birds
through flawed general licences.
Any time soon we should see DEFRA's proposals for new general licences in England.
The Wild Justice approach, of
challenging the legality of decisions by public bodies, is not just
making waves, but creating greater opportunity for change for the
better.
And let us end on another positive
note. Wild Justice has recently transferred £10,000 to launch a new
forensics fund administered by the Partnership for Action Against
Wildlife Crime - see here for details.
This fund will be used to speed up and improve forensic analysis in
wildlife crime cases. Thank you to those organisations and individuals
who
contributed to this fund and, in the nicest possible way, we are not
looking for any further contributions at this stage while we wait to see
how things go. In any case, now the fund exists, we would expect other
organisations to chip in to help combat wildlife crime according to
their means. Step forward BASC, Countryside Alliance and Moorland
Association?
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