Wild Justice
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Award-winning not-for-profit org fighting for nature conservation in the UK, via legal challenges, public campaigns & focused research.
Joined October 2018
We’re going to challenge badger culling licences in the courts with @BadgerTrust ! . This will cost us time and money, but we won’t stop fighting. Will you help us? Donate to our crowdfunder:
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Wild Justice co-directors and supporters are very proud of @ChrisGPackham who received his CBE for services to nature conservation today (wearing an @extinctionr tie.)
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Wild Justice co-director Chris Packham receives CBE medal at Buckingham Palace
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When are pheasants livestock, and when are they wildlife? We know this is a confusing subject, so we've made a handy flow chart to help you decide. It's simple really! . Baffled? Annoyed? Sign up to our newsletter for more info➡️
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Five shot goshawks in Suffolk - Wild Justice offers £5K reward for information, matching @RSPBEngland reward. £10,000 is now on offer to anyone who can provide information that leads to a conviction. New blog ⬇️.
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Wild Justice is just like the RSPB really. except we don't own any land, haven't got any permanent staff and haven't raised even £1m since we sprang into existence in 2018 let alone £120m per annum. But we do speak truth to power . and we don't apologise for that.
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The guy who bid over £2500 for work of art donated to @ChrisGPackham has added another £500 donation to Wild Justice. Thank you so much.
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We think all native birds of prey should be welcome across the UK – what do you think? Take our poll below ⬇️ #BirdsOfPreyWelcome
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Wild Justice secures an historic environmental legal victory. DEFRA is to introduce an interim licensing regime for the release of pheasants & red-legged partridges in England. Read our statement here: @MarkAvery @ChrisGPackham @RuthTingay.
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We're in court today - seeking permission for judicial review of @Ofwat's failure to regulate discharges of raw sewage into rivers Thanks for such strong support for this challenge. Fingers crossed that we get permission to take it further.
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Good morning! Happy Birthday to our co-director @ChrisGPackham 'May the fourth be with you!' Plz RT. #springwatch @_BTO @Natures_Voice @BBCSpringwatch @michaelgove @sueperkins @TVsSimonKing @StephenMoss_TV @BillOddie @Kate_Bradbury @CarolineLucas @SueHayman1 @ExtinctionR
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Wild Justice wins judicial review as Northern Ireland badger cull ruled unlawful ⚖️🦡. Read our reaction & the full judgement here ⬇️⬇️.@LeighDay_Law @MatrixChambers
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Good morning world! We are @wildjustice_org . We have been set up by @ChrisGPackham @MarkAvery & @RuthTingay to take legal cases on behalf of threatened wildlife. Our website is now live at This is our first tweet.
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New research: A new study has concluded that Badger culling has been ineffective in reducing bovine TB in cattle herds. 🦡. Please share the news! You can read our blog on the study here ➡️
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Good morning! Yesterday afternoon @NaturalEngland conceded Wild Justice's legal challenge of the General Licences England's wildlife agency has been running an unlawful licensing system for years. More on this through the day.
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Woodcocks are declining in the UK, yet over 160,000 of these beautiful birds are shot each year. A small change in legislation could make a big difference for Woodcocks. We're asking for the shooting season to be shifted to help them. Read more here ➡️
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Good morning! This is what a CBE for services to nature conservation looks like. Well done @ChrisGPackham
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We know Landowner Darwall doesn't like wild campers on his Dartmoor estate, but it seems he's happy to release pheasants close to a protected woodland there. We had some questions, so we've written to Natural England. Read more on our blog:
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You did it! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Over 100,000 voices calling for a change in the shooting season for Woodcock. This amazing number means we can see a debate in parliament. So many of you have supported and spread the word - we’re really grateful 🙏🏻 1/2
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Last day of our Woodcock petition! Thank you for signing in such numbers - over 107,000 signatures. Limiting the Woodcock shooting season will be debated by MPs in Westminster because over 100,000 people signed this petition Every signature counts!
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Good news! We heard this morning that we've been granted permission for judicial review of the impacts of gamebird releases on sites of high nature conservation value. The case will be heard in October. 1/2
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Thank you @BenjaminFallow ! This little superstar 🌟 has donated £100 to Wild Justice from the sale of some his fabulous wildlife artwork 🦅🦊🦡🙏. Read more here:
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New report: SSSIs in England are being failed badly. We looked at the data on Sites of Special Scientific Interest in England - and it's not good. Here's what we found. 🧵1/8
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It looks like Natural England ignored the advice of its own Science Director to go ahead with new badger culls, so as not to upset the farming industry. So we're starting the process of a legal challenge along with @BadgerTrust. Full details in blog:
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We launched a week ago. What a week! Website glitches, trolls, some abuse (we haven't done anything yet!) but overwhelmingly warm messages of support. Thank you! We're sure we can make a difference but know we can't do everything. Looking forward to announcing 1st project soon.
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❗️Breaking News: A date has been announced for a debate on our petition: Ban the shooting of Badgers immediately. Please consider writing to your MP - full details on our blog ➡️
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On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE. In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments. Answer: NO. Read the report here: 1/8
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This letter from @ShootingTimes is a bit awkward for the shooting community. It describes the type of Woodcock shooting that we have been told by loads of shooters never happens. Well, it does. That's why our petition to limit shooting by regulation 🧵
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NEWS: A Wild Justice victory! . Defra has conceded that some of their gamebird licensing was unlawful. Ministers did not adhere to the legal requirements of the Habitats Directive and the advice of Natural England. Read the full story in our blog:
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We didn’t get a chance to post this from @NatalieBen on Sunday – but it’s a great vision:. “I’m looking forward to a TRUE #GloriousTwelth not that far into the future, when we can celebrate the first year of no driven grouse shooting because it’s been banned”. #LoveHenHarriers
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Join @ChrisGPackham & @IoloWilliams2 live in a few minutes on Chris’ Twitter as we pass 100,000 emails on the Wild Justice @Natures_Voice @HenHarrierDay e-action!.
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NEWS - but no result: at the hearing for permission for judicial review of @Ofwat's failure to regulate sewage discharges (which just ended in the Royal Courts of Justice) judgment is reserved. Which means we'll have to wait a while (days rather than weeks) for the result.🧵
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For those not in a position to bid £2000+ for Chris Packham's . well, you know . … . Wild Justice offers the possibility of supporting our work through @PayPal, cheque or bank transfer
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NEWS: We're working with @BadgerTrust to challenge badger culling. We think Natural England issued licences unlawfully, doing so to maintain farmer confidence rather than control disease. You can read more on our blog:
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Woodpigeons and crows can no longer be freely killed in England
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TV star Chris Packham on how death threats spur him on - and don't intimate him
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Calls to ban gamebird release to avoid ‘catastrophic’ avian flu outbreak Well done to RSPB for this - Wild Justice quoted on a subject on which we have been very active. @ChrisGPackham @RuthTingay @MarkAvery
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Delighted our Raptor Forensics Fund helped convict gamekeeper Archie Watson of multiple raptor persecution offences on a pheasant shoot at Galteemore Farm, Wiltshire. Thanks @WiltsRuralCrime @RSPBbirders @DWFireRescue @ukwildlifecrime @NHM_London .
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Pheasant and partridge classified as species that imperil UK wildlife
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Defra concedes our challenge on non-native gamebirds and will consult on need for assessment of impacts.
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Sewage in rivers has been in the news a lot recently. You've probably thought "How awful, somebody should be doing something about that". Well. we've decided to just that. See our blog, and read our thread below 🧵⬇️ (1/5).
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Wild Justice is prepared to take further legal action against @DefraGovUK on gamebird releases Of course we are!
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“We should all be incensed by what is happening in our countryside, where a powerful elite are riding roughshod over laws which are designed to protect our environment & our wildlife”– the superb Tessa Gregory from @LeighDay_Law at #HenHarrierDay. #LoveHenHarriers
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Good morning! We've issued a new legal challenge against the regulations on burning peatlands. We believe DEFRA's new regs are unlawful & unenforceable. Find out more here:.
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That's 90,000 signatures! . 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!
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The Woodcock shooting season opened yesterday. Today is a day of safety (E,W & NI) because it's Sunday but shooting restarts tomorrow. 34,000 people have signed the petition to push back the start of the shooting season to 1 December. Thank you! Plz RT
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Wild Justice Raptor Forensics Fund helps secure 2nd gamekeeper conviction. Many thanks to all those who contributed, esp @N_E_R_F @ScotRaptorStudy & several key donors. Thanks also to @pawfwg for administering the ££ ensuring police officers have access.
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Please @michaelgove, stop the casual killing of Jays. Our latest blog: on the @DefraGovUK consultation about the general licences
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Woodcock! Beautiful - but declining - birds that can be helped with a simple change in the law! Can you help them? Please SHARE and sign our petition ✍️ Thread with more info 🧵⬇️ 1/5
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New legislation planned in England to clamp down on hare coursing
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Our latest blog: @Ofwat is somewhat desperately trying to avoid public scrutiny of its actions @OfficeforEP @WildFishCons @WCL_News @CarolDa72715987 @Feargal_Sharkey @TheENDSReport @WindrushWasp @SAS_London_ @sascampaigns @DefraGovUK @EnvAgency #sewage
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BIG DAY today. We are in court (virtually), with our friends in @badgersni arguing our judicial review of the @daera_ni plans for a Badger cull in Northern Ireland. We expect the case to last all day. Badgers cannot take legal challenges - we need to do that for them. We are.
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DEFRA has failed to issue its consultation on gamebird releases on the promised day (yesterday) and tell us they 'aim to do so as soon as possible in the coming weeks'. DEFRA know they are under pressure from a court order to get this done. 1/2
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We're disappointed to have to tell you that we lost our appeal for permission for judicial review of @Ofwat regulation of sewage releases. A few more details on our blog . @WindrushWasp @Feargal_Sharkey @sascampaigns @RiverActionUK @WCL_News @WildFishCons
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Banning driven grouse shooting is to be debated in the Westminster parliament thanks to our successful e-petition. Thank you to all who signed this petition. Subscribe to our newsletter to hear how you can help further.
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Dear @NaturalEngland, we made an EIR.request on 9 Aug. You said you needed 20 more working days & wd reply 5 Oct. You didn't, & nothing today. We'll go public with our concerns over licensing of gamebird releases around SPAs with no further notice. @DefraGovUK . 📷Tim Melling
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You did it - thank you. 1500 people raised £40,000 in a day to take @ofwat to court over discharges of raw sewage. What a day - thank you!
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A thread on our legal challenge of @ofwat on sewage. It's good to see this issue getting so much media coverage. We go to court in September seeking permission for judicial review. @LeighDay_Law.
Today (06:53) @BBCr4today returns to subject of raw sewage being released. It's good to see so much coverage on this subject. Wild Justice goes to court in September seeking permission for judicial review of @Ofwat failure to ensure that sewerage system is fit for purpose 🧵.
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That's 🎉75,000🎉 signatures on our petition to get driven grouse shooting banned. @ChrisGPackham's pretty chuffed about it!. Now, the last 25% needed to reach our target of 100k. Please help us keep the momentum up!. Sign here:
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BASC asks what you can do to help Woodcock Well, you could start by learning to identify it correctly - this is a Snipe. Shooting in the dark, eh?. @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdwatchExtra @BirdWatchingMag @NaturalEngland @DefraGovUK @LabourDefra @HoCpetitions
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Wow - 40,000 of you have signed our Woodcock petition! It's amazing to know so many people care about the plight of such a secretive little bird. Thank you - but we must keep going. Please share and RT! .Sign ➡️
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New report: MEDDLING ON THE MOORS. On the grouse moors of northern England, a controversial management trial of Hen Harriers has been under way for five years. Some call it brood management, we call it brood meddling. Today we at Wild Justice publish Meddling on the Moors. 1/5
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Wild Justice launches a new legal challenge @WCL_News @Natures_Voice @WildlifeTrusts @Buzz_dont_tweet @Love_plants @savebutterflies @ARC_Bytes @Mammal_Society @NaturalEngland @DefraGovUK @michaelgove @theresecoffey @CLAtweets @BASCnews @Gameandwildlife.
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We have lodged a complaint to the Competition & Marketing Authority about @waitrose & @marksandspencer still selling gamebird meat contaminated with toxic lead shot ☠️ whilst simultaneously claiming not to stock it anymore. Details on our blog:
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Good afternoon! We heard this morning that our judicial review hearing on the impacts of non-native gamebird releases on wildlife sites is scheduled for 3 and 4 November - there could be fireworks!. See hear for some details
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Gamekeeping gets change of job description Changes to terms of general licences (England) mean that gamekeepers can no longer target corvids to protect wild living Pheasants or Red-legged Partridges. @NationalGamekee @BASCnews @CAupdates @Gameandwildlife
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“We need the good gamekeepers to speak up for our hen harriers and call out illegal behaviour when they see it” – @IoloWilliams2 sends a strong message at #HenHarrierDay 2019. #LoveHenHarriers
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Dear @sainsburys you may have forgotten that we told you that we were getting samples of game meat from your stores analysed for their lead content. We got the results from the laboratory yesterday evening - they are interesting. We'll publish the results next week.
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We are getting quite a few of these too. 'Just a note to say well done to Chris Packham and Wild Justice for taking all this flak from a bunch of neanderthals this week. '. Bit harsh on neanderthals., perhaps; but death threats and intimidation are not on.
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Good morning! While we were at @TheBirdfair yesterday our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 54,000, 55,000, 56,000, 57,000 and 58,000 signatures Day 4. Thank you to all who've signed.
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The reward from Wild Justice, @Natures_Voice and @RareBirdAlertUK for information on the 5 shot Goshawks now stands at £14,000. Help us get a conviction for this awful crime - please like and RT to spread the word!
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100,000 signatures! THANK YOU!. 100,000 of you have signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. This should result a debate on a ban in parliament!. Don't stop here - every name counts. Please sign and share:
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That's now 86,000 signatures on our petition to change the shooting season for Woodcock! Thank you so much - we're nudging towards 90K. Please do keep spreading the word, and sharing the petition with friends and family:
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Happy New Year! If you thought we were active in 2019 then watch out for Wild Justice in 2020.
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It's our birthday! Wild Justice is five years old. We might be young, but we reckon we punch above our weight. And of course, we couldn't do any of our work without your support - thank you!
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From a farmer; 'I grow Oil seed Rape; we apply compost in the autumn so the crop thrives and outgrows the pigeon damage; we don't need to shoot pigeons on our rape; I will not be applying for a licence for this.'. Thanks! Appreciated. But we recognise other farmers may need to.
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Our first case is a legal challenge of the General Licences issued by @NaturalEngland on 1 January. Our legal advice is that these are illegal. NE needs to come up with a lawful system of licensing killing of crows etc ahead of 2020.
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It's our Birthday! Wild Justice launched 3 years ago today, and we've been busy. We rely entirely on your donations, so thank you for your support! Read our birthday blog ➡️
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We're in @spectator this week. The establishment is a bit worried about the opposition to illegality in the countryside.
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Excellent news, you've helped us reach 90,000 signatures today - that's over 2,000 names added since this morning! Thank you, we're chuffed to bits. Anything you can do to help us gather another 10K is much appreciated!
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Good evening! We'd very much like you to sign this petition please. We're hoping it will get to 10,000 signatures tonight. And it might if you sign it and ask others to sign too. Fingers crossed! Thanks!.
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What a day! Thanks to all who hopped on board our two trips to hear about our work and see some excellent bird life with @harbourbirds ! . As Chris says, sign up to our free newsletter to hear about our work and our future events!.
Cor ! White-tailed Eagle , 5 Ospreys + hobby and more on our 2 @harbourbirds @wildjustice_org boats in Poole Harbour . thanks to all who came . Please RT !. Support us by signing up to our newsletter at
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Nice suit, Chris. Nice CBE. Nice @ExtinctionR tie. But you can't wear that tie in the Palace of Westminster - too political. #springwatch #autumnwatch
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100,000 signatures reached on Day 20. Less than 3 weeks to get 100,000 signatures for urgent land use change. Thank you to everyone for your support. @strathearnrose @DefraGovUK @NaturalEngland @nature_scot @theresecoffey @ZacGoldsmith.
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Good afternoon! #Badgers: today we lodged an appeal against a judge's decision to refuse us permission for judicial review of @NaturalEngland licensing of Badger shooting.
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Thank you very much for signing our e-petition We've passed 100,000 signatures and merit a debate in parliament. More signatures always welcome! Thank you.
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Woohoo! Our petition has passed 34k, 35thou and 36,000 signatures today. A long way to go to 100,00 and a Westminster debate but we have momentum right now. Thank you! Is there someone in the room with you now who might sign too?. Plz sign and RT
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Wild Justice Raptor Forensics Fund helps secure gamekeeper conviction. Many thanks to all those who contributed, esp @N_E_R_F @ScotRaptorStudy & several key donors. Thanks also to @pawfwg for administrating the ££ & ensuring police officers have access.
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Congratulations all involved in securing this conviction. We agree the sentence is extremely lenient. The Wild Justice legal challenge led to the releasing of non-native gamebirds potentially being an offence - 3400 Pheasants on an SPA in this case.
The outcome is disappointing considering the scale of offending and the amount of work put in by the partner agencies involved including @ukwildlifecrime @NaturalEngland @RuralCrimeNfk A media release from Norfolk Police can be read here
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From White-tailed Eagles to Hen Harriers – let us know what you think. Please RT and share!.
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Chris Packham writes to @NicolaSturgeon & @strathearnrose @cairngormsnews @ScotWildlife @ScottishBirding @RSPBScotland @FergusEwingMSP @N_T_S @ScotGamekeepers @RaptorPersScot @nature_scot @ScotLandEstates
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Good morning! Wild Justice's @ChrisGPackham invites @fieldsportstv to come and ask their questions in front of a @TheBirdfair audience in a few weeks time since @CAupdates. @Gameandwildlife @BASCnews have vetoed Chris's appearance at @TheGameFair today
Good morning . So @MarkAvery and I won’t be at @TheGameFair today . Shame . A shocking ‘fear of violence from shooters’ cited by @CAupdates @BASCnews & @Gameandwildlife as the reason . Here’s an invite to @charliejacoby @fieldsportstv to attend @TheBirdfair
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The Met Police have announced plans to axe their Wildlife Crime Unit. We agree with @Naturewatch_org that this is wrong. Will you sign their petition and ask the Met to rethink their disbandment of the Wildlife Crime Unit? .
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We're chuffed to bits! We've heard from Birdwatch magazine that Wild Justice was voted its conservation hero of 2023, with over half of the votes cast. Thank you for those who voted for us!
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