ANOTHER FROM LEGAL JUSTICE AND ITS GREAT NEWS

 

Good morning - we're blowing our own trumpets a bit in this newsletter but, to be fair, only by passing on some positive external views of Wild Justice.    ENDS 100 power list: the online environmental news organisation, ENDS reports, has published a list of 100 powerful influencers in the environment sector and our own Chris Packham is one of them - click here. To be fair, Chris would probably be in many such lists even if Wild Justice didn't exist, but Wild Justice does get a mention - which is nice.  And this list is produced from the views of fellow environmentalists.   Wild Justice is also mentioned in Carol Day's entry in the same list. We work closely with Carol on all our legal challenges - click here.   What the Green Groups say: yesterday another report came out, also based on the views of environmental leaders and funders. It's an interesting read about the state of the UK environment movement - click here.   This review is made every few years and this is the firt time that Wild Justice has had the chance to feature in it. Now it would be very surprising if Wild Justice were to be regarded as being as influential as the likes of the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts or National Trust, and we aren't, but the two graphs below, produced by Matt Shardlow (CEO of Buglife) show  the ranking of organisations in terms of their staff number and budget - Wild Justice comes out very well by these measures. It's recognition by our environmental colleagues that Wild Justice punches well above its weight in terms of resources and that is very gratifying.             Considering all the flak we get from the shooting industry it's really nice to be recognised by fellow environmentalists. We noticed that BASC, GWCT, Countryside Alliance, Scottish Land and Estates, Moorland Association, National Gamekeepers Organisation and Scottish Gamekeepers Association amassed just one favourable mention between them in the latter report and failed to have anyone at all in the ENDS 100 Power list. That speaks volumes about their standing amongst real environmentalists.   But your opinions matter most to us - our work depends on your donations. If you are impressed by what we are doing then donations by cheque, PayPal or bank transfer will allow us to do more - click here to consider donating - thank you.   That's it - thank you!   Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).   PS we have received a response from Ofwat (Ofwhere?) to our pre-action protocol letter about sewage discharges. It's obvious that our letter has already stung Ofwat into giving this matter much more thought but we want to see more action. We'll be deciding our next move in the next few days.     This is the 109th 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).

 

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