Good morning! Today we publish a report which reveals that levels of rat poisons found in birds of prey, Red Kites and Buzzards, have risen alarmingly in recent years despite a government-endorsed scheme which aims to reduce their levels. Yet again, Wild Justice is blowing the whistle on failure of government and its agencies to protect wildlife. Our report analyses and publishes data that government and its agencies have been sitting on for years. We show that the levels of rat poisons in the livers of Buzzards and Red Kites have increased alarmingly despite a government-endorsed scheme, introduced in 2015, which was supposed to reduce wildlife exposure. The Rodenticide Stewardship Scheme has failed and we call on government to impose greater restrictions on the legal use of rat poisons and take greater steps to combat criminal use of such poisons to kill birds of prey. You can read the full report here - click here - with a summary, lots of graphs and our calls for action. We'd like you to write to your Westminster MP and your representatives in the Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh legislatures to draw their attention to these findings (although the data we obtained were for England only) and to ask them to contact government ministers across the UK administrations and ask them what action they will take. You can find your elected representatives as follows: Members of Parliament (click here), Members of the Senedd (click here), Members of the Scottish Parliament (click here) and Members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland (click here). Ask your representative to write to the relevant government minister (they will know who that is) to ask on your behalf what steps will be taken. Stress that you are concerned that poisons are found in non-target species and that this is a mixture of careless use, lax regulation and some illegal use. In time, your representative will get a response from the minister which they will forward to you. We'd be interested to see those responses please. Wild Justice depends on donations to do our work. We haven't asked for donations in any of the 10 newsletters since 3 July (the day before the general election) as we have had a healthy bank balance and as a not-for-profit company we aren't in the business of accumulating wealth (and having to pay Corporation Tax on it). We have had four months and more of sensibly spending down our bank balance. Now we're in a new financial year we need to start building that balance up again. if you like what we do then please donate today. You can donate through PayPal, bank transfer or a cheque in the post - see details here. You are our source of funding and a donation today would also feel like a vote of confidence in what we are doing. That's it for now - but after a gap of over four weeks since our last newsletter we think we'll be back in touch pretty soon. Thank you, Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay). This is the 212th 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). 9 Lawson St Raunds Wellingborough Northants NN9 6NG UNITED KINGDOM Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options

 

Good morning!    Today we publish a report which reveals that levels of rat poisons found in birds of prey, Red Kites and Buzzards, have risen alarmingly in recent years despite a government-endorsed scheme which aims to reduce their levels. Yet again, Wild Justice is blowing the whistle on failure of government and its agencies to protect wildlife.     Our report analyses and publishes data that government and its agencies have been sitting on for years. We show that the levels of rat poisons in the livers of Buzzards and Red Kites have increased alarmingly despite a government-endorsed scheme, introduced in 2015, which was supposed to reduce wildlife exposure. The Rodenticide Stewardship Scheme has failed and we call on government to impose greater restrictions on the legal use of rat poisons and take greater steps to combat criminal use of such poisons to kill birds of prey.   You can read the full report here - click here - with a summary, lots of graphs and our calls for action.   We'd like you to write to your Westminster MP and your representatives in the Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh legislatures to draw their attention to these findings (although the data we obtained were for England only) and to ask them to contact government ministers across the UK administrations and ask them what action they will take. You can find your elected representatives as follows: Members of Parliament (click here), Members of the Senedd (click here), Members of the Scottish Parliament (click here) and Members of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland (click here).    Ask your representative to write to the relevant government minister (they will know who that is) to ask on your behalf what steps will be taken. Stress that you are concerned that poisons are found in non-target species and that this is a mixture of careless use, lax regulation and some illegal use. In time, your representative will get a response from the minister which they will forward to you. We'd be interested to see those responses please.     Wild Justice depends on donations to do our work. We haven't asked for donations in any of the 10 newsletters since 3 July (the day before the general election) as we have had a healthy bank balance and as a not-for-profit company we aren't in the business of accumulating wealth (and having to pay Corporation Tax on it). We have had four months and more of sensibly spending down our bank balance. Now we're in a new financial year we need to start building that balance up again. if you like what we do then please donate today. You can donate through PayPal, bank transfer or a cheque in the post - see details here. You are our source of funding and a donation today would also feel like a vote of confidence in what we are doing.   That's it for now - but after a gap of over four weeks since our last newsletter we think we'll be back in touch pretty soon.   Thank you,   Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).   This is the 212th 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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