FROM LEGAL JUSTICE

Good morning!  

 

This newsletter describes a legal challenge in Scotland which Wild Justice has supported, a very quick round up of some of our projects and a couple of petitions which we think you might be interested in signing. 

 

Scallop dredging - is it lawful?: Wild Justice has supported a legal challenge by the small Scottish charity Open Seas which is going to court on Monday. We wish them well and have supported them to the tune of £10,000.

 

Scallop dredging is a highly damaging activity - it wrecks the seabed. Ask anyone involved in marine conservation about the top issues and dredging for scallops will be mentioned near the top of the list. See our blog for more information (click here).

 

A quick round up of current Wild Justice work: we're busy! We have met with our lawyers to discuss responses from water companies and Ofwat on sewage discharges and from Natural England and Defra on releases of gamebirds in SSSIs. We also have been discussing ideas about forestry practices and aspects of raptor persecution on grouse moors. We've written to many dog food manufacturers about high levels of lead in dog food (see here) and we are analysing data on SSSI condition in England supplied to us by Natural England (see here). And we haven't forgotten about glyphosate, nor about the current consultation about gamebird releases in Wales. We are still waiting for the result of our legal challenge of plans for a Badger cull in Northern Ireland. 

 

That's quite a workload - it's great fun but it takes quite a lot of juggling.  

 

Petitions: 

• Open Seas petition calling on the Scottish government to reinstate an inshore limit to bottom-trawl and dredge fishing -  click here.
• Wild Justice is one of over 50 organisations supporting a petition by River Action to Rescue Britain's Rivers. With your support we think this can go well past the current 40,000 signatures - click here

 

Thank you. 

 

 

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That's it for now. We couldn't do any of this without you.    

 

Thank you,