REPOST: Wild Justice 65 - this one we lost.
Yesterday, after writing the newsletter we sent you, we heard from our lawyers the bad news that we have lost our challenge to the licensing of free-shooting of Badgers. This is a great...
View ArticleSubject: Wild Justice 64 - please contact your Westminster MP this Week
Good evening! It looks like being a rainy weekend in many parts of the UK, and you won't want to spend the whole weekend watching football on TV will you? In these newsletters we usually tell you...
View ArticleBBC: Chinese elephant mystery
IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionA herd of endangered elephants in China has completely dumbfounded scientists globallyElephants are by nature fiercely intelligent beasts and experts who study them...
View ArticleTortoise in a wheelchair
A 70-Pound Sulcata Tortoise With a Rare Disease Can Now Walk Thanks to a WheelchairMental FlossEverywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there were men women children dogs cows wildpigs little...
View ArticleSaving yellow naped parrot
Beauty behind barsTorn from their parents. Imprisoned for life. These rare parrots are paying a heavy price for their splendour.Yellow-naped parrots are stunning birds. With their glorious green and...
View ArticleSubject: Wild Justice 66 - Grouse shooting debate and more
Good morning! This newsletter tells you about the grouse shooting debate in parliament, asks that you contact Natural Resources Wales about their general licences, suggests a date for your diary,...
View ArticleBBC: Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery
IMAGE COPYRIGHTKAI GENGimage captionThe Dragon Man's skull is huge, with a brain size about the same as the average for our speciesChinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong...
View ArticleBBC: Why has the sea off Scotland turned turquoise?
IMAGE COPYRIGHTGRANT LAUCHLANYou'd be forgiven for thinking you're looking at a photo from the Mediterranean but this is Scotland's west coast around the Isle of Arran. The vivid turquoise colour of...
View ArticlePython poser
Massive 8-Foot Burmese Python Mistaken for 'Garden Hose' by HomeownerNewsweekHughes also told WNBC that because it is not immediately clear how long the python was on her property, she fears the...
View ArticleSaving the Siamese crocodile
The timeless reptiles running out of timeThey are living dinosaurs. Siamese crocodiles are truly ancient - one of the final living connections we have to our planet’s long-lost past. For millennia,...
View ArticleBBC: leucistic puffin
IMAGE COPYRIGHTDORA HAMILTONimage captionThe bird's lack of pigmentation is caused by a genetic condition called leucismA rare white puffin has been spotted on a small island off the Sutherland coast...
View ArticleBBC: Covid common in cats and dogs, study finds
Covid is common in pet cats and dogs whose owners have the disease, research suggests.Swabs were taken from 310 pets in 196 households where a human infection had been detected.Six cats and seven dogs...
View ArticleWild Justice #67
Message Body Good morning, Near the end of May we sent out newsletter 62 which decribed what we believed was a breach of the general licences (we also published an account on our blog). The events...
View ArticleOut of place animals in Wales
The raccoon dog, panthers, wallaby and other creatures that made a run for it in WalesWalesOnlineFrom mystical big cats to captured raccoon dogs, there's always a chance that ... A big cat consultant...
View ArticleNew kind of carnivorous snail in India
Tiger touch for India's newest snail recordedThe HinduThe "snail of Sahyadri" recorded for the first time from Maharashtra's northern is carnivorous. But that is not its only indirect link with the big...
View ArticleWild Justice 68
Good morning! Our main news today is that Wild Justice has made significant progress on reform of the general licences that apply in Northern Ireland. But first, here are a couple of snippets from...
View ArticleSaving Grauer’s gorillas
Great apes in grave dangerWhat’s happening is a tragedy. Nothing short of it.Over the last few decades, Grauer’s gorillas have been practically obliterated. They’ve been under assault from all sides -...
View ArticleBBC: Giant goldfish problem in US lake prompts warning to pet owners
A city in the US state of Minnesota has urged residents not to release their unwanted pet fish into the wild after finding huge goldfish in a lake.The common household pets can grow far bigger in the...
View ArticleBBC: Anglers on alert for invasive Pacific pink salmon
Anglers have been asked to report catches and sightings of an invasive species of salmon in Scottish rivers.Pink salmon are native to Pacific Ocean waters but have spread to parts of northern Europe...
View ArticleBig cat in Carolinas
North Carolina man reels in record-setting 127-pound blue catfishKIRO SeattleIt is the third-largest blue catfish ever caught in the U.S. ... "But once we got that big one in the boat and it bottomed...
View ArticleBrunswick the shark
Meet "Brunswick" And 8 Other Bone Chilling Great White Sharks Who Have Visited Our Jersey Shore943thepoint.comCats are predators and natural hunters, but kittens must be taught how to stalk and kill....
View ArticleThe meaningless destruction of the Malay tapir
Malay tapirs need your helpNo images? Click hereThe meaningless destruction of the Malay tapirMalay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the...
View ArticleSubject: Wild Justice 69 - new legal action, Shooting Times update
Good morning! Our main news today is that we are mounting a challenge of DEFRA's regulations that relate to burning vegetation on peatland soils. However, we know that many of you are interested in...
View ArticleNOTICE
Dear Friends, I have been doing blogs on Blogger/Blogspot for so long that it seems really strange not to be doing them anymore, but as many of you will have found out, dear Louis - who really is a...
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