Woodcock: Our petition asking for a change to the shooting season of Woodcock will be debated this afternoon at 430pm. Thank you to all of you who have sent your MP a briefing on this subject. Big organisations send their briefings directly to MPs but we think that you are the best person to tell your MP what you think - and if our briefing is in line with your views then feel free to use it. Have a look here - click here.
Westminster Hall debates allow backbench MPs to debate issues shown to be important to the public by dint of passing 100,000 signatures in a petition. The debates are non-binding on the government. However, the last two speakers in such debates are an opposition shadow minister (we think it will be Alex Sobel MP, Leeds North West) and a government minister (we think it will be Trudy Harrison MP, Copeland). It is an opportunity to put the government on the spot and call for change - that's what you have helped to do if you signed the Woodcock petition.
You can watch the debate online on the Parliament You Tube channel on Monday 27 February from 16:30 - click here for link.
Lead in game meat: today a paper is published on the ongoing failure of the shooting industry to remove toxic lead shot from the human food chain. Three years into a 5-year initiative the progress has been practically zero. At this rate it will take another 47 years to get rid of lead from food. Wild Justice has been very tangentially involved in this particular study but we have our own 'lead in meat' results coming soon so this is a useful introduction to the subject for new subscribers.
Here is a link to our blog on the subject - click here - which also has a link to the detailed study published today.
We believe that lead ammunition should be banned, on human health and environmental grounds.
And a thank you: a mammal gave us £2000 last week - for lack of details click here.
Our next newsletter: we'll comment on the Woodcock debate and we think we may have some other news too but the next newsletter is likely to be towards the end of the week as we are rushing around doing other things...
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That's it for now. We couldn't do any of this without you.
Thank you,
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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