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The campaign group announced earlier that it would challenge the inclusion of gamebirds as livestock for the purposes of using the general licence to protect them from predation. The group appear to have hoped that by preventing the control of corvids to protect gamebirds they could disrupt shooting activities. However the effectiveness of such a strategy is very much in doubt, with gamekeepers pointing out that losses of adult gamebirds to corvids are not generally very high. In a a blog explaining its legal case Wild Justice argued that DEFRA had acted outside of its powers by broadening the definition of livestock from the one found in the Wildlife and Countryside Act. It then went on to make a high profile claim that DEFRA had conceded that its main claims were correct and that they would amend the licences. In a statement Wild Justice said: “It seems that someone in Defra yielded to pressure from the shooting community to expand the definition of gamebirds as livestock. Wild Jus ....
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New 2 year general licences have been issued for England, covering the same range of species as previously, but there are other changes to general licences ....