Our Northern Ireland victory – some more thoughts
The news that Wild Justice has toppled three Northern Ireland general licences is good for wildlife, good for those who respect the rule of law and bad news for the Northern Irelan...
DAERA concedes unlawfulness of Northern Ireland general licences – another Wild Justice win.
Wild Justice, represented by Leigh Day acting through their agent Phoenix Law, has secured a landmark victory in a legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s general licences for the ki...
Lead-contaminated game meat found for sale on Sainsbury’s shelves
British supermarket shelves are still stocked with potentially toxic game meat in the run up to Christmas, recent research by Wild Justice has found. · Tests on packets of pheasant...
We lost our renewal application
Today Wild Justice lawyers were arguing for a renewal of our claim for judicial review of DEFRA’s feeble burning regulations. Unfortunately we did not persuade the judge. We ...
Rising reports of wildlife crimes during the pandemic
Wild Justice is a member of Wildlife & Countryside LINK and today the consortium has published its latest annual report on wildlife crime (covering 2020). Here is the press rel...
DEFRA under increasing pressure to stop burning on peatlands
Remember COP26 – it was only 10 days ago. Nations were castigated for not doing enough to combat climate change. We have a classic example of government being weak in the fac...
Waitrose – are you having problems sourcing lead-free game meat?
Wild Justice has been scouring the game meat shelves of supermarkets for shot birds to get analysed for lead content. Last spring, we published analyses of game meat collected from...
Ecological illiteracy from BASC
An article in this week’s The ENDS Report highlights the ecological illiteracy of the British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC). The ENDS Report article is b...
