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Good afternoon!
This is a short newsletter.
1. The DEFRA
consultation on gamebirds closes on Monday so this weekend is a good
time to get it done if you mean to do it. Thank you to hundreds of Wild
Justice supporters who have responded - we've been amazed at how many of
you have already responded and told us you have. And this includes
people who have never responded to a government consultation before -
that makes us feel good because it suggests that we are encouraging and
helping you to become more active for nature. And that's great.
Just have a
look at the comments we have received from people like yourself as they
have completed the consultation - we've posted three selections on our
blog - click here, here and here. There are some wonderful comments and some are quite funny. Made us laugh anyway.
Some tips (which appeared in the last newsletter) are updated and can be found in another blog post - click here.
2. Good news -
in newsletter 43 (in December) we asked you to sign a petition calling
for an area of north Kent to be notified because of its importance for
invertebrates. We were basically giving Buglife a hand with this. We're
pleased to say that Natural England has recently made the site at Swanscombe an SSSI.
Hooray! Well done to
all who signed the petition, well done Buglife and well done Natural
England (on this issue). The fight doesn't end there, but it's a very
solid move in the right direction.
3. We know
that many of you, we think most of you, receiving this newsletter have
signed the joint NGO petition calling for an amendment to be added to
the Environment Bill - if you haven't done so yet, please have a look
and add your name if you feel able - click here.
4. We will
soon be able to tell you about action we are taking in each of the four
UK nations. Next week we envisage being able to tell you about a new
legal challenge in one country, ask for your help in another country,
tell you about our hopes in another country and show you a letter we
have sent in a fourth nation. Let's see how each issue progresses but
we are keen to share where we have got with you. And that doesn't
mean we'll be asking you for money straight away, but we might be asking
for your help.
But, talking of money, if you do like what we are doing then please consider making a donation through PayPal, bank transfer or a cheque in the post - see details here.
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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