Environmental activist steps back from the fight ‘disappointed’ by Labour so far

Mark Avery to stand down from role with Wild Justice but won't completely give up campaigning, he insists

If government ministers and civil servants are grey squirrels, they may think they can rest easy - the predatory pine marten in the Westminster jungle is leaving them in peace.

A campaigner who has created a landscape of fear" over the authorities' failure to protect nature is stepping back from Wild Justice to spend more time with the wildlife - and grandchildren - in his garden.