Good morning!
Yesterday the three of us met for a
Wild Justice Board meeting. Sounds grand doesn't it? Well, we sat
outside, socially distanced in an open shed and watched the rain beating
down. But it was really good to meet up in person (the first time since
August and only the third or fourth time in 2020). We discussed the
ideas you sent us in response to our last email and made a lot of plans
for 2021. The vegan mince pies were good too.
But we haven't finished with 2020
yet. On Friday our legal challenge to Natural Resources Wales's general
licences goes to court (online) and so we'll be watching events with
keen interest. And tomorrow we're discussing a range of issues with our
legal team. There's always something going on, even though much of our
work only pops up now and again into the public gaze.
We've been looking at the issues of
lead ammunition use and pesticide use for a while and our plans,
including laboratory testing of levels in food, are progressing and so
you are likely to hear more about them from the spring onwards. We are
watching the progress by DEFRA and statutory agencies across the UK to
reform their general licences and the regulation of the release of
non-native gamebirds and we remain ready to take further legal action to
press
home the significant changes we have already caused to be put into
place.
In newsletter 40 we promised an
update on the books we have distributed to schools and libraries. Thanks
to the generosity of the publishers (Oxford University Press,
Bloomsbury and Barrington Stoke), the authors (Gill Lewis and our own
Mark Avery) and to Henry Morris's donation last year, we have donated 173 copies of Eagle Warrior, 167 copies of Sky Dancer and 55 copies
of Inglorious to school and public libraries,
mostly in Scotland, Wales and the north of England. We're planning to
send out another batch of these books later this year.
Your response to the petition links
we included in our last newsletter was rapid and massive - thank you.
Wild Justice is unusual among nature conservation organisations in being
very relaxed about supporting other people's efforts to do good for
nature. We are well aware that we are a small organisation and we can't
do everything ourselves and so we are very happy to point our
supporters towards other initiatives. So here are three more petitions
which
we think deserve support:
Our own Ruth Tingay featured on a
Planet Podcast chat with Richard Benwell of Wildlife and Countryside
Link - well worth a listen, click here.
If you like what we are doing then please consider making a donation through PayPal, bank transfer or a cheque in the post - see details here.
That's it for now but we won't wish
you a Happy Christmas yet because there will probably be at least one
more newsletter before then.
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