Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. A not-for-profit company is one where the directors don’t benefit from the profits of the company and money raised is spent on the aims (called the ‘objects’) of the company.

The objects of Wild Justice are:

• Nature conservation, primarily in UK.
• Advocacy to make UK laws, policies and practices more wildlife-friendly.
• Use of UK legal system to further nature conservation objectives.
• Encourage public participation in nature conservation issues.

We decided not to set up a charity because that would limit some activities, eg campaigning against government policies, that we may want to carry out. We keep this decision under review.

We take legal challenges against UK governments and their agencies, and we campaign for a better deal for wildlife.

To read more about our work on these subjects just click on the links:

• General licences – here’s a recent update
• Gamebird releases – how we changed the rules
• Badger culling – here’s a recent update
• Beaver reintroductions – here’s an example
• Lead ammunition – here’s an example of tests we’ve done, more coming soon
• Glyphosate use by local authorities – here’s a recent update, more coming soon
• Illegal persecution of birds of prey – here’s a recent update
• Sewage discharges in rivers – here’s a recent update
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest – here’s a recent update
• Woodcock shooting season – here’s a recent update

We don’t just want your donations – we’d like your support please. Your active support. We will give you opportunities to speak out for nature through signing petitions, writing to your elected politician, spreading the word and taking part in scientific studies. You’ll hear about these opportunities through our free newsletter – please subscribe through the box at the foot of this page.

We don’t expect that everyone will be turned on by each one of our projects so you can pick and choose where you put your valuable time and effort. But we hope that we’ll give lots of people lots of opportunities to make a difference for wildlife.

Having said that, we need your money too please. We appreciate that not everyone can donate but our work will grind to a halt without donations so an occasional donation, or a regular one of any size, will help us keep going. A typical legal challenge costs over £40,000 and can be funded with one very large and generous donation or 2000 very generous donations of £20+ each. The largest single donation we have ever had was this one – of over £12,000 – but most of the donations we receive are less than £100 but they all add up. There are details of how to donate in another box just a little down the page.