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Good afternoon!
Here are several pieces of good news to end the week.
1. Heather burning restrictions in England:
if you were one of our many supporters who signed our e-action (with
Hen Harrier Action and RSPB) last August you will have been pleased with
the measures brought in before Christmas to license moorland management
in Scotland and today brings long-overdue movement from DEFRA in
England. Today's announcement
isn't perfect, we need to read it carefully, but it is bringing in
significant change and reform to moorland burning practices over a very
wide area of upland England from Yorkshire to Lancashire and from
Derbyshire to Northumberland. If you participated in our e-action you
helped bring that about. Thank you.
2. Badger petition:
our e-petition has passed 91,000 signatures and is heading very rapidly
for 100,000 which should generate a Westminster Hall parliamentary
debate. If you haven't already signed, then please have a look and see
whether you can add your support - click here - thank you.
3. Wales, gamebirds and general licences:
we have heard from the Welsh government that they are planning to
introduce restrictions on gamebird releases next year. Wild Justice will
be involved in those discussions. We are also going to meet NRW to
discuss their next steps on general licences.
4. Gamebird releases, England:
following our successful legal challenge over gamebird releases DEFRA
will issue a consultation in early February. We have been involved in
discussions about this. We will be encouraging our supporters to respond
to the consultation through a future newsletter a few days after the
consultation is launched.
5. General licences, England:
changes to the system that have been brought in followig the Wild
Justice legal challenge are beginning to bite. See this blog about how
Natural England is beginning to clamp down on casual killing of birds - click here. It's a
start.
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. A very small number of people have been put off donating to us through bank transfer because of a slightly scary message -
there is nothing to worry about but see here for more details - click here.
That's it for now. Have a good weekend!
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