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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 9d

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information

Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

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Julia Barrell @juliabarrell.bsky.social · 10d

Please do respond to this consultation if you can.

Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 10d

Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) are causing widespread harm to wildlife, especially birds of prey. Here's your opportunity to put pressure on the HSE to stop approving them for use - there are safer alternatives!

Deadline Tues 30 Sept!

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Please respond to this consultation on rodenticides - Wild Justice

The Health and Safety Executive has announced a consultation on Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). Although this is meant to […]

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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 10d

Done. You should too. SGARs don't just kill rodents, they kill non target species too. They are bad.

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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 9d

Mission completed yesterday! Thanks to @wildjustice.bsky.social for the guidance, which was invaluable.

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Richmond and Twickenham Friends of the Earth @rtfoe.bsky.social · 10d

Nobody wants a rat infestation - except perhaps for the chemical cos making BIG profits from rat poison while also harming wildlife. This guide from our friends at @wildjustice.bsky.social gives you a chance to tell a consultation that there are safer alternatives: wildjustice.org.uk/general/plea...

Please respond to this consultation on rodenticides - Wild Justice

The Health and Safety Executive has announced a consultation on Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). Although this is meant to […]

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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 10d

very important - job for this evening!

Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 10d

Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) are causing widespread harm to wildlife, especially birds of prey. Here's your opportunity to put pressure on the HSE to stop approving them for use - there are safer alternatives!

Deadline Tues 30 Sept!

wildjustice.org.uk/general/plea...

Please respond to this consultation on rodenticides - Wild Justice

The Health and Safety Executive has announced a consultation on Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). Although this is meant to […]

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 10d

Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) are causing widespread harm to wildlife, especially birds of prey. Here's your opportunity to put pressure on the HSE to stop approving them for use - there are safer alternatives!

Deadline Tues 30 Sept!

wildjustice.org.uk/general/plea...

Please respond to this consultation on rodenticides - Wild Justice

The Health and Safety Executive has announced a consultation on Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). Although this is meant to […]

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 22d

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors.

Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement.

#RaptorResearch

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Good news! Natural England pulls the plug on ‘reintroduction’ of Hen Harriers to southern England

It’s been a long time coming, but today Natural England has announced it is finally pulling the plug on it’s project to ‘reintroduce’ Hen Harriers to southern England. It ma…

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you to everyone who dropped by our stand at #WildSummitUK yesterday....we hardly had time to take a breather and have been overwhelmed with the level of support for our work. Our Phabulous Pheasant (shit)Show caused quite a buzz! Thank you 🙏

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you to everyone who came to our Phabulous Pheasant (shit) Show at #WildSummitUK yesterday! We've had so much lovely feedback & support, thank you!

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 26d

Brilliant to meet & chat with the incredible @wildjustice.bsky.social team @wildsummituk.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social & bump into so many others there. A magnet for action for wildlife (& good news that the Pheasant Show theatrical will at some point be online!) Thank you for all you do 💚

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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 27d

What the? Indeed. Looking like a great show @wildjustice.bsky.social @wildsummituk.bsky.social

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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 27d

Bags full of info plus Schrödinger’s pheasant and the livestock vs wildlife conundrum. A bit of a lecture theatre performance at @wildsummituk.bsky.social from @wildjustice.bsky.social 👏👏 re the pheasant crisis in the UK

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gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social @gillianfoxcroft.bsky.social · 27d

The Phabulous Pheasant Show @wildsummituk.bsky.social
by @wildjustice.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @bobelliot.bsky.social @lucylapwing.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Let hope the absurd and grotesque becomes the illegal
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 28d

Setting up for our Phabulous Pheasant Show at #WildSummitUK tomorrow….

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning, Dan. We'll have an all-day stall at the event (ground floor) - please come and find us and we can chat!

We're also running an event on the Lantern Hall Stage from 1-1.45pm, exploring the weird (& not so wonderful) world of gamebird releases. Hope you can come along.

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join us at #WildSummitUK on Thurs 9 Sept for our Phabulous Pheasant Show, where we'll be ridiculing the absurd annual release of 50 Million non-native Pheasants & exploring the environmental impacts of this grotesque 'sport'.

Our show runs 1pm - 1.45pm, Lantern Hall.

+ All-day stall, ground floor.

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Sep 6

BBC News coverage of our successful legal challenge against a planning decision made by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.

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Pembrokeshire adventure centre plans quashed over environmental concerns

Wildlife campaigners won a legal case against the national park authority to quash planning permission for the adventure centre.

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good news - we won our challenge in Wales!

Judge rules planning permission for outdoor adventure centre in Pembrokeshire is unlawful because of environmental concerns.

Read our press release: wildjustice.org.uk/general/judg...

Judge rules planning permission for outdoor adventure centre in Pembrokeshire is unlawful because of environmental concerns - Wild Justice

Judge rules planning permission for outdoor adventure centre in Pembrokeshire is unlawful because of environmental concerns In a victory for […]

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Join Wild Justice at the inaugural Wild Summit for an interactive and visual dive into the past, present and future of what George Monbiot describes as the ‘bronze plague’.

Bristol Beacon, 11 Sept, all day!

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Join us at the Wild Summit on 11 Sept 2025 at the Bristol Beacon - Wild Justice

We’ll be attending the inaugural Wild Summit on 11 September 2025 – an environmental extravaganza organised by Wildlife & Countryside Link which […]

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Aug 8

It would be easy if all we had to do was persuade the court to care about wildlife! Unfortunately that's not how this works - we need to show that our legal arguments about the Minister's statutory duties under the Environment Act 2021 have sufficient merit to proceed to a full hearing.

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Aug 8

We've been granted a permissions hearing at the High Court for our legal challenge against Angela Raynor's assertion that the Planning & Infrastructure Bill 'will not reduce environmental protections', which we say was both untrue & unlawful.

Press release 🔽

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Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice

Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill Arguments for a legal challenge against the government […]

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is astonishing.

Although actually, it isn't if your values are focused on having the 'right' to shoot gamebirds in the face for a bit of fun rather than protect wild birds of high conservation value from a devastating disease. #BirdFlu #Ornithology

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Four more bird flu outbreaks confirmed, including on a Pheasant shoot – yet selfish BASC starts another legal challenge against Govt restrictions on gamebird releases

Four more outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI, also known colloquially as Bird Flu) have been confirmed across the UK in recent days, including on a pheasant shoot in Exmoor Nation…

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

There are at least 14 other cases that I know of, still to be publicised.

The wilful blindness of Defra Ministers allows this criminality to continue. They're not even embarrassed.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology

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143 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors

For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…

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