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Dear Field Sports Enthusiasts Countryside Alliance member GWCT BASC Are you a member of the above and you concerned over your representative bodies lack of response to events? If so feel free to copy and paste the following along with your membership number to your representative body: I am writing to you today because I believe that we share a common goal, and that by working together, we can achieve something truly remarkable. As a concern to us all in the past Wild Justice has launched a numbers of spurious court cases against various aspects of field sports. Fortunately, to date these actions have been dismissed by a wise judiciary. However, Wild Justice has a command and dominance of electronic media and access to a youthful internet audience and their funding via Crowd Funding. The opposite is true of your members who look to you to lead them in these issues. Defamation is a rich man/woman’s sport, win or lose but with a Crowd Funded option this deterrent no longer inhibits Wild Justice or Chris Packham. Alarmingly there is now more than £100K amassed for Chris Packham’s two actions for defamation, allowing him to litigate without financial constraint. What are your organisations doing to counter this threat? Should he win his case, especially against Field Sports Channel then it will be open season on all Field Sports. United we stand, divided we fall. Do not desert your fellow sportsmen, I assure you your members will not forgive inaction at a time of need. It is not for me to propose that you join forces with representative bodies, but I believe it would be a grave error if you did not mobilise your collective membership, marketing knowledge, financial resources, and expertise, to create a powerful force to raise a defence fund equal to that of Wild Justice. A fund that shooting folk will support in the knowledge that it will be directed against a common enemy. Together, you all can achieve much more than you can alone. Please reassure me that this issue has not been missed. Best regards