New report shows what game shooting delivers for nature – now tell Defra
The GWCT’s new Game for Nature report reveals the benefits to wildlife of habitat creation, winter feeding and predator control carried out by keepers.
True cost of Wild Justice’s judicial review against NRW revealed
Shooting Times this week has revealed the significant costs that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) had to pay to defend Wild Justice’s failed judicial review on the legality of the general licences.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by the magazine shows the public body spending £145,000 on external legal advice. This does not include internal costs and staff hours spent on defending the judicial review.
On seeing the FOI response Steve Griffiths, BASC Wales director, said: “BASC stated from the start that this judicial review was an unnecessary diversion for NRW in a time of a national pandemic. Those funds could have gone towards tangible conservation efforts, improving Welsh biodiversity. Instead resources have been wasted with nothing to show.”
The FOI follows the news that the costs order, that Wild Justice were forced to pay, was capped at just £10,000 – the maximum allowed under the Aarhus Convention.
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Send one email to save game shooting
The government is reviewing every aspect of game shooting in England. Conor O’Gorman provides an update and urges people to email Defra by 1 November.
Rural voices must be heard, BASC tells Liberal Democrats
BASC highlighted the importance of shooting to rural communities and the need for their voices to be heard at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference this week.