Wild Justice | Another crowdfunder met
Excellent news from Wild Justice today: the charity that works to better protect wildlife by challenging bad legislation in the courts has successfully raised funds for another legal case.
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Podcast: Checking in with Dr Mark Avery
Here at The War on Wildlife Project we were thinking that as us campaigners, conservationists, and activists can’t get out to meet and see each other now, how about creating something to bring the conservation community together – everyone from individuals to grassroots organisations to larger charities – something that reminds us all that we’re still out there, still working, but that also shows the human side of things during this COVID-19 crisis. We could think of them as ‘check-ins’ – as in, ‘checking-in to make sure we’re all okay’.
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Crowdfunder: Wild Justice – General Licences in Wales
Our favourite trio of ‘injustice fighters’ – Dr Mark Avery, Dr Ruth Tingay, and Chris Packham CBE aka Wild Justice (and if you don’t know what WJ is or what they do have a read of our write-up of their first birthday party) – have launched a Crowdfunder to challenge yet another poorly-written and scientifically illiterate piece of legislation in the courts. They’re again taking on the General Licences – this time in Wales.
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Wild Justice | Shooting’s “Ecological assault”
Just days after their first birthday , Wild Justice – the campaign group made up of Dr Mark Avery, Dr Ruth Tingay, and Chris Packham CBE – have launched an action seeking judicial review of so-called ‘gamebird’ releases. What does that mean in practice? Charlie Moores explains…
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Happy Birthday Wild Justice
So, here we are, writes Charlie Moores. In a modern room in an historic building off Old Chancery Lane. We’re here to celebrate a year of Wild Justice (set up to ‘fight for wildlife’ by challenging legislation in the courts). They have lit a fire under prejudices and ‘traditions’ that are unfit for the twenty-first century. As Chris Packham says here in London, “We pick fights because we know that we’re right“. Every one of us that supports Wild Justice knows it too.
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SNH confirm shake-up to general licenses
After pressure from Wild Justice and campaigners, a range of common bird species will be given greater protection following a shake-up of a weak and abused licensing system in Scotland that allowed gamekeepers and farmers to kill otherwise-protected wild birds under a ‘General Licence’.
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