Hares In The Garden!....From ‘Wild Justice’…..
by Bernie Bell - 07:34 on 25 April 2025
Hares In The Garden!....
Wednesday morning, there were TWO Hares in our garden...
One having a thorough grooming session...
They were mating - right there in the meadow - which, hopefully, means more Hares.
No photos - it's all over too quickly!
They were there for most of the day, and settled down in the evening…
By Thursday morning they were gone, but then…..they turned up again and re-established themselves in ‘their’ garden!
So I Googled the significance of seeing Hares in your garden....
https://www.thespiritualcentre.net/hare.html
Well, well, well……..
(They've got it wrong about spending their days in burrows - that's rabbits!)
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From ‘Wild Justice’….
“In this newsletter: our petition - click here - to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 100,000 signatures (Woohoo!!), Private Eye and the adverts, our accounts are filed (yawn!) and a goodbye from him.
Our petition on banning driven grouse shooting: at the weekend, the signatures on our petition passed 100,000. Hooray! And thank you to everyone who has signed, shared and promoted the petition. Thank you to a range of fellow wildlife organisations who have pushed the petition along, including the RSPB, League Against Cruel Sports and Hen Harrier Action.
We'd like to get more signatures, but our efforts will now switch largely to trying to ensure that the debate which should now follow is a good one. These debates are primarily for backbenchers but a shadow minister and a government minister close the debate. You can play a part in ensuring that a good debate occurs and we'll tell you how through this newsletter.
Our blog lists the constituencies from which most signatures have come - click here. Top of the list is the marvellous Derbyshire Dales with 602 signatures but now second, after months of being in fourth place, is neighbouring Sheffield Hallam with 586 signatures. Sheffield Hallam has leapt up the list because a team of volunteers has been delivering leaflets in the five Sheffield constituencies. All five have seen impressive increases in signatures, especially Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield Heeley and Sheffield Central. There are more leaflets to be delivered and we are expecting this surge to continue. Another team of leafleteers, coordinated by Chris Millward, founder of Team4Nature and coordinator of the BRUM biosphere project, has been pushing up numbers in Birmingham.
Private Eye and Big Issue: we were delighted to see - click here - a full page of letters in Private Eye supporting Wild Justice after Private Eye backed out of publishing another two adverts from us.
Private Eye's explanation is a bit thin but we're pleased to see they were fair enough to publish so many letters from our supporters and probably people who had never heard of us before. If you wrote to Private Eye - thank you!
One of the 'Too edgy for Private Eye' adverts is appearing in The Big Issue this week - you may find it being sold on the streets of your local town today. It's another cartoon by Edith Pritchett and it seeks to gain signatures for our petition as well as highlighting raptor persecution as an issue. Please go out and buy a copy of The Big Issue as you'll be helping good causes by doing so. We'll bring you the advert in a future newsletter. We're hoping you'll see it elsewhere too.
Our company accounts: Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company and therefore pays Corporation Tax on 'profits'. We have filed our accounts with Companies House - click here, paid our Corporation Tax and are now nearly half way through our next financial year.
Wild Justice depends on donations to do our work. 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.
Mark Avery writes: this is the 235th Wild Justice newsletter and the last one I will write as I am standing down after six and a half years as a Wild Justice director. We've achieved a lot in that time but the best is surely yet to come and I wish Chris and Ruth, and Bob Elliot the incoming first Wild Justice Chief Executive, all the best for the future. You won't run out of battles to fight and public bodies to poke. Imitate the actions of the Pine Marten - that's my parting advice.
Thank you.
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).”
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