Hen Harrier Fest 2022: a reminder for your diaries – Hen Harrier Fest is on Sunday 24 July, from 10:30am until 4:00pm. We can now reveal our venue - and it’s a brilliant one - Adlington Hall and Gardens, in Cheshire. The day is free to attend, but we’ll ask you to let us know if you’re planning on coming (to manage numbers) – our registration will be open very soon. We’ll have lots of exciting names, faces, stories and activities throughout the day. We can’t wait to see you there! Full address: Adlington Hall and Gardens, Mill Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield Cheshire SK10 4LF.
Chris Packham in conversation with David Wolfe QC and Tessa Gregory:how do legal challenges work and what do they achieve? click here.
Wild Justice's annual accounts for year ending October 2021: click here(but they are quite dull). Because Wild Justice is a not for profit company, and not a charity (for a brief explanation of that - click here), we pay corporation tax on our 'profits' - essentially if we have more money in the bank at the end of the financial year than we had the year before. Last year we paid a bit over £3000 in corporation tax. As a growing organisation we are likely to pay these relatively minor amounts for a few years and then we might have a few years of making a 'loss' ie spending more on our legal and campaigning work than we have raised in the previous 12 months. We'll tell you each year what we've done.
Waiting patiently: we are waiting for a reply from Ofwat on sewage discharges, which we expect to receive by Tuesday next week (see here). Also we await a response from DEFRA, and DAERA in Northern Ireland, on Woodcock shooting seasons (see here). DAERA still have not issued their consultation on general licences which was originally promised for January (see here).
Badger challenge in Northern Ireland: it's looking less and less likely that there will be a Badger cull in Northern Ireland this year. This is partly because of the political situation in Northern Ireland following the May assembly elections, but also because of our legal challenge. DAERA has confirmed to us that there will be no Badger culling before the end of September in any case, and we now know that we will be in court on 9 September to ague that, in the absence of a proper consultation, any such cull would be unlawful. We have closed the crowdfunder because we feel that with some promises of extra funding if needed we have this case covered - thank you for making this possible. We now have to wait until September before there will be anything much to report although there will be plenty of legal activity below the surface.
A petition: Wildlife and Countryside Link, of which Wild Justice is a member, has a petition which is on just below 32,000 signatures. It calls for a legal right to nature near where you live. Have a look at the petition please and see whether you can give it your support. It's up to you - but we hope you do! Thank you - click here.
Please spread the word! This newsletter would be a good one to send on to your environmentally aware friends please. It tells them a bit about Wild Justice's work and we hope they might sign the petition above and send it further and further to their friends. If you have been sent this newsletter by a friend please consider signing up to receive it yourself - it's free and you can cancel any time you like - click here to sign up and give it a try.
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Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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