Letters
Write to: The Editor, The Field, Future Publishing PLC, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London, W2 6JR
Email: field.secretary@futurenet.com
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WILD HYPOCRISY
The Field is to be congratulated on allowing Wild Justice the right of reply [Letters, July]. Nothing could have demonstrated the group’s irrelevance and hypocrisy more clearly than its amazingly smug communication. Any serious conservation organisation would, if challenged, point to genuine achievements in something significant, say species abundance. It chose instead to major on the odd claims that it is better value than the Countryside Alliance and has nicer playmates in Wildlife and Countryside Link.
It is true that Wild Justice has had impacts. The main one is to make an already timid regulator so terrified of being monstered on social media by the group’s followers, while simultaneously being dragged into court as a result of a misplaced comma, that it will not issue essential licences for the protection of rare species, whose survival is threatened by common generalist predators. Wild Justice’s other achievement is that it has demonstrated, very clearly, that existing wildlife legislation is not fit
