FROM FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

View in browser Dear John, You just got an email from us with the subject 'Have we offended you?' We didn't mean to send you that – sorry! A technical error meant that this email was automatically sent to you. Our apologies for any confusion or worry that mistake caused. Here's the email we meant to sent: Many of us will be deeply affected by the wildfires in Suffolk and across Europe, which further make the case for action on climate change. After years of Friends of the Earth pressure, the UK government has committed to set stronger objectives to adapt to climate change. To keep us safer from extreme weather. That’ll be of little solace to those fleeing fires today. Or anyone bearing the brunt of back-to-back heatwaves; disabled people, care home residents, those in badly designed homes. But it's progress. And we still have a live legal case to make the government do more. Can you sign our petition to keep the pressure up too? Or share it if you've already added your name. I'LL SIGN THE PETITION For more rays of hope, keep reading... Breakthrough on illegal deforestation Last month the UK government announced it will finally implement new regulations to stop imports of commodities like palm oil, soy, cattle and cocoa produced from illegally deforested land. This is massive news. And I can honestly say this wouldn’t have happened without all your support. It’s a great step forward, but we need much higher government ambition to truly protect forests and the people who depend on them. And to hold companies to account for environmental harms and human rights abuses in their supply chains. So we can celebrate this success, but our campaign’s not over. And we’re going to need your continued support. I'LL SIGN THE PETITION Join us in October to end corporate harms to people and nature After that breakthrough, help us keep up the momentum. Join us in London to ask your MP for a new law to put people and planet over destructive corporate profit. We’ve joined with the Good Business Matters campaign to hold a mass lobby – where hundreds of us will meet our MPs in Parliament – to call for this law. Join us in Westminster on Wednesday 21 October to put a stop to human rights and environmental abuses in UK companies' supply chains. Sign up and we’ll give you all the info and support you need to show your MP why this matters to you. I'LL TAKE PART Heathrow expansion – how much do you know? There's a lot of competing info out there about whether a new runway at Heathrow airport is a good or bad thing. Fancy testing your own knowledge? Here's the first question: 1. Governments and private funds from 6 countries own a slice of the Heathrow pie – profiting directly from its expansion. Which one of these isn’t on that list? AUSTRALIA FRANCE SAUDI ARABIA UK Tens of thousands demand clean water The heat’s got many of us dreaming of taking a nice refreshing dip. But with hundreds falling sick after sewage spills on UK beaches, we’ll have to think twice [1][2]. Nearly 50,000 of you have signed our petition calling for clean water now – thank you! If you haven’t signed our petition yet, please do. I'LL SIGN THE PETITION Local action on – and in – the water Local action group York Friends of the Earth partnered with Surfers Against Sewage to highlight the increasing levels of pollution in the River Ouse, while private water companies make huge profits. Attendees paddle-boarded, kayaked, swam or marched along the River Ouse and dropped a banner from Skeldergate Bridge. The event gained local and national media attention. Swimmers and a canoeist in a river, a swimmer holds up a sign 'end sewage pollution' If you’d like to get involved where you live – for clean water or for any local issue that matters to you – use our group finder and get stuck in! FIND MY LOCAL GROUP Sustainable fashion with free shipping this weekend Now’s the time to stock up on summer fashion – from Friday to Sunday you can get free shipping at our Threads of the Earth shop. Look good while supporting our work. This isn’t fast fashion. Our products are made from all-natural materials using renewable energy and eco-friendly printing methods. And, once your item is worn out, you can send it back to be remade for credit in return. As they say, a T shirt is for life, not just the summer hols 🌞 TAKE ME TO THE SHOP A photo of someone wearing a 'save the planet' t shirt, and the text 'free post all weekend' Coming up, you’ll hear from us soon on how you can take action to clean up our water and how to say no to a third runway at Heathrow. Until then – stay safe and happy in the sun! 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IT”S BUGBYTES AGAIN FROM BUGLIFE

Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) © Katie Waddington "If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse." ~ Sir David Attenborough ~

FROM PROTECT THE WILD—GUGA HUNT IS SET TO BE REFUSED

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Guga hunt licence set to be REFUSED The science says the hunt can't go ahead. DEVON DOCHERTY JUL 29 READ IN APP If you haven’t already seen the news on our social media, NatureScot has published the papers for its upcoming board meeting on 3 August, and its own licensing and marine ornithology experts have made a clear recommendation: The 2026 Guga hunt licence should be refused. I hesitate to celebrate too soon, but this almost certainly means the Guga hunt will not be going ahead this year. Let me explain what’s happened. NatureScot has carried out the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the Guga hunt ever undertaken. The results from that were published today, along with a summary by their licensing and marine ornithology team. Drawing on updated population modelling, the latest evidence on avian influenza and the legal tests required under the Habitats Regulations, they concluded a licence should not be given this year. In their assessment, the marine science experts considered three possible options: Grant the full licence to kill 2,000 gannets as requested by the hunters; Grant a reduced licence to kill 500 gannets; Refuse the licence. Officials rejected the first two options. By law, NatureScot cannot grant a licence for something that undermines the integrity of a protected site. And the science showed that a kill limit of 2,000 Gannet chicks would negatively affect the population over the long term and undermine the integrity of the Sula Sgeir Special Protection Area where the hunt takes place. Crucially, the papers reveal that even reducing the hunt to 500 birds would still leave "reasonable scientific doubt" that it would not adversely affect the site, which is home to internationally important seabird populations. The recommendation by NatureScot’s licensing and marine ornithology team concludes: “On the basis and rationale summarised above, the recommended option is to refuse the licence application this year.” This would be the first time NatureScot has refused a licence for the Guga hunt. You made this possible This announcement came on the very same day our petition to NatureScot surpassed 250,000 signatures. Sign the petition That is no coincidence. Over the past few months, together we’ve transformed the Guga hunt from a little-known event into one of Scotland’s biggest wildlife controversies. We’ve put NatureScot under unprecedented public scrutiny, forcing it to confront questions it had never properly answered, commission more robust scientific analysis and revisit long-held assumptions about the hunt. Every signature, every email, every donation, every protest, every share, like and comment helped make that happen. Thank you. But as the saying goes, it’s not over til it’s over. NatureScot’s Board will make the final decision this Monday, so we can’t be 100% sure the hunt won’t be going ahead til then. We’ll be observing that meeting and will let you know the outcome immediately. But it would be genuinely unthinkable for them to ignore their own science. Either way, our work wouldn’t stop there. We’ll immediately begin campaigning to abolish the outdated legal exemption that allows this hunt to take place at all. More on thats soon. One way or another, the days of the Guga hunt are numbered. Stay tuned, and thank you again to all the incredible people reading these posts, taking action, and helping us to abolish Britain’s last seabird hunt. We’re so close to stopping the Guga hunt but we need your help to get it over the line. Become a Gannet Guardian today with a monthly donation and help give this campaign the strength to keep going until the Guga hunt is ended for good. The next stage of this campaign is to secure a change in the law so that the Wildlife and Countryside Act no longer allows the Guga hunt to be licensed in the first place. Become a Gannet Guardian If you set up a recurring donation today, we’ll send you a Gannet plushie as a reminder of the birds you’re helping to protect :) SHARE LIKE COMMENT RESTACK © 2026 Protect the Wild Protect the Wild, 71-75 Shelton Street Covent Garden, London, W2CH 9JQ Unsubscribe Start writing

WILD JUSTICE—A COMPLETE UPDATE

Good morning, Today we bring you a few updates including a guest blog on our recent legal action about overgrazing on Dartmoor, news of a brilliant campaign to restore the incredible and valuable natural landscape of Dartmoor and also share some news about 'Wild Justice on Sea' and this year's 'Wild Summit'. Our Dartmoor grazing case – a deep dive into the judgement In March of this year, we finally received news that we had won our legal challenge, ruling that parts of Dartmoor had been mismanaged. We had argued that the Dartmoor Commoners’ Council (DCC) had failed to carry out its statutory legal duties to safeguard protected sites on Dartmoor, allowing overgrazing to impact wildlife and damage habitats. You can find out more about the initial stages of the case here and the court’s ruling here. Tony Whitehead, an environmental campaigner and a member of the Dartmoor Nature Alliance has written a brilliant in-depth overview of the judgement and what it means going forward for grazing on Dartmoor and for the wider governance of England’s common land. To read the blog, follow this link. Our legal challenge has put the issue of grazing on Dartmoor, and the urgent need for improved assessment and regulation of habitat management, squarely on the government’s agenda. Last month, you might have seen the whirlwind of media around the spurious claims that Dartmoor ponies would be culled under new government plans. Despite the media fanfare and airtime this story received, these allegations were utterly false. You can read the Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s response to the media furore here and Natural England’s blog which gave detailed responses to all claims made in the media. As a result of the misleading press coverage, Natural England published a press release on 15 July revealing a sudden decision to introduce new protective legislation for Dartmoor Ponies. You can read the press release here and the Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s response by clicking this link. Bring back Dartmoor’s rainforests - Dartmoor Nature Alliance campaign Still on the subject of Dartmoor and its incredible habitats… Dartmoor is home to three temperate rainforests – all remnants of once larger woodlands. These fragile, ancient Oak woodlands support an extraordinary diversity of wildlife, including rare mosses, lichens, ferns and fungi. Once widespread across Britain, temperate rainforests are now one of the rarest ecosystems in the UK, making their protection and restoration a vital part of nature recovery on Dartmoor. In May, the Dartmoor Nature Alliance (DNA) launched a campaign to help expand and improve Dartmoor’s rare temperate rainforests. If you’d like to learn more about these incredible ecosystems, and how you can support the campaign to bring back Dartmoor’s rainforests, follow this link and read Guy Shrubsole’s blog by clicking here. Wild Justice on Sea Thank you to all of those who expressed an interest in joining us for a boat trip in Poole Harbour - nearly 500 of you applied for tickets! On Friday we sent invites out to a group of randomly selected applicants - please check your junk box to make sure you didn't miss it. If there are any outstanding places as of Friday 31st July, we'll be drawing some extra names out of the hat. Keep an eye out! Wild Justice at Wild Summit Wild Summit returns to the Bristol Beacon on 9 September 2026 and Wild Justice will be there. We’ll provide more information nearer the time but as well as having a stand, our CEO Bob Elliot will be speaking on the main stage, and we’ll be putting on another entertaining stage show, following last year’s roaring success! We’ll also be launching an exciting new joint project with some of our colleagues. Tickets for Wild Summit are on sale now and we hope to see you there! Thank you, Wild Justice (CEO: Bob Elliot. Directors: Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay). This is the 272nd Wild Justice newsletter. This email was sent to you because you subscribed to it through the Wild Justice website or through an e-action or a petition where you ticked a box. Thank you. We will only use your personal details to send you the Wild Justice newsletter. We will not give or sell your details to anyone else. You can unsubscribe at any time: there is an unsubscribe button at the foot of this email or you can reply to this email and ask us to remove you from the list (the former will happen immediately, the latter might take a few days). 124, City Road London Greater London EC1V 2NX UNITED KINGDOM Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options

WILD JUSTICE—PART THREE—WILD JUSTICE AT SEA & BRISTOL BEACON

Wild Justice on Sea Thank you to all of those who expressed an interest in joining us for a boat trip in Poole Harbour - nearly 500 of you applied for tickets! On Friday we sent invites out to a group of randomly selected applicants - please check your junk box to make sure you didn't miss it. If there are any outstanding places as of Friday 31st July, we'll be drawing some extra names out of the hat. Keep an eye out! Wild Justice at Wild Summit Wild Summit returns to the Bristol Beacon on 9 September 2026 and Wild Justice will be there. We’ll provide more information nearer the time but as well as having a stand, our CEO Bob Elliot will be speaking on the main stage, and we’ll be putting on another entertaining stage show, following last year’s roaring success! We’ll also be launching an exciting new joint project with some of our colleagues.

WILD JUSTICE—PART TWO—RAINFORESTS

Bring back Dartmoor’s rainforests - Dartmoor Nature Alliance campaign Still on the subject of Dartmoor and its incredible habitats… Dartmoor is home to three temperate rainforests – all remnants of once larger woodlands. These fragile, ancient Oak woodlands support an extraordinary diversity of wildlife, including rare mosses, lichens, ferns and fungi. Once widespread across Britain, temperate rainforests are now one of the rarest ecosystems in the UK, making their protection and restoration a vital part of nature recovery on Dartmoor. In May, the Dartmoor Nature Alliance (DNA) launched a campaign to help expand and improve Dartmoor’s rare temperate rainforests. If you’d like to learn more about these incredible ecosystems, and how you can support the campaign to bring back Dartmoor’s rainforests, follow this

WILD JUSTICE—PART ONE—OVERGRAZING ON DARTMOOR

Today we bring you a few updates including a guest blog on our recent legal action about overgrazing on Dartmoor, news of a brilliant campaign to restore the incredible and valuable natural landscape of Dartmoor and also share some news about 'Wild Justice on Sea' and this year's 'Wild Summit'. Our Dartmoor grazing case – a deep dive into the judgement In March of this year, we finally received news that we had won our legal challenge, ruling that parts of Dartmoor had been mismanaged. We had argued that the Dartmoor Commoners’ Council (DCC) had failed to carry out its statutory legal duties to safeguard protected sites on Dartmoor, allowing overgrazing to impact wildlife and damage habitats. You can find out more about the initial stages of the case here and the court’s ruling here. Tony Whitehead, an environmental campaigner and a member of the Dartmoor Nature Alliance has written a brilliant in-depth overview of the judgement and what it means going forward for grazing on Dartmoor and for the wider governance of England’s common land. To read the blog, follow this link. Our legal challenge has put the issue of grazing on Dartmoor, and the urgent need for improved assessment and regulation of habitat management, squarely on the government’s agenda. Last month, you might have seen the whirlwind of media around the spurious claims that Dartmoor ponies would be culled under new government plans. Despite the media fanfare and airtime this story received, these allegations were utterly false. You can read the Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s response to the media furore here and Natural England’s blog which gave detailed responses to all claims made in the media. As a result of the misleading press coverage, Natural England published a press release on 15 July revealing a sudden decision to introduce new protective legislation for Dartmoor Ponies. You can read the press release here and the Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s response by clicking this link.