Published on Thursday 20 January 2011 at 5:00pm Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman has offered the support of our experts in flood response and recovery to the Brazilian Government after flooding devastated parts of the country. Environment …
Published on Thursday 20 January 2011 at 9:30am Population indices up to 2009 are published today for native breeding farmland birds, woodland birds, water and wetland birds, seabirds and wintering waterbirds for England and the UK as a whole. …
Published on Thursday 20 January 2011 at 9:30am A statistical update of twenty-six indicators, providing an overview of biodiversity in England, are published today. These show improvements in some aspects of the natural environment for instance …
Published on Friday 14 January 2011 at 2:23pm Sharks, skates and rays under threat of extinction should be given bespoke protection to help them recover faster, according to a new Government conservation plan launched today. The plan outlines how …
Published on Thursday 13 January 2011 at 5:42pm Conservation and a thriving fishing industry should go hand-in-hand but, as Channel 4’s new fish season shows, the broken European quota system makes this almost impossible and has led to the terrible …
Published on Wednesday 12 January 2011 at 10:56am A routine disease investigation has ruled out avian notifiable disease but detected H1N1 influenza in turkeys on a farm in Cheshire. The strain is closely similar to the human pandemic H1N1 strain …
Published on Tuesday 11 January 2011 at 5:23pm Conservation and a thriving fishing industry should go hand-in-hand but, as Channel 4’s new fish season shows, the broken European quota system makes this almost impossible. In this video UK Fisheries …
Published on Wednesday 5 January 2011 at 12:01am Europe should rely less on direct farming subsidies and reward farmers more for their environmental efforts and the other work they do to enhance the countryside, Environment Secretary Caroline …
Published on Thursday 30 December 2010 at 9:30am Compensation payable during January 2011, in England (and in Wales and Scotland for BSE only) for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for disease control purposes will be as detailed below. …
Published on Thursday 30 December 2010 at 10:43am Over 95 per cent of England’s finest wildlife and geological sites, covering more than one million hectares of countryside, are now in favourable or recovering condition, Environment Secretary …
Published on Thursday 23 December 2010 at 10:31am Caroline Spelman, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has appointed Catherine Brown as the first Chief Executive of the new Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories …
Published on Thursday 23 December 2010 at 12:01am £21million worth of grants to help councils protect and support their own community when managing flood risk has been confirmed by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman. The funds will fully cover …
Published on Wednesday 22 December 2010 at 9:30am Scientists may be able to halt global honey bee losses by forcing the deadly Varroa mite, lethal in the freezing weather, to self destruct. The blood-sucking Varroa is the biggest killer of honey …
Published on Monday 20 December 2010 at 12:47pm The budget allocations for Defra and its arms length bodies for the next financial year were published today. Indicative allocations for each of the remaining years of the Spending Review period have …
Published on Friday 17 December 2010 at 12:01am Alternative remedies which could be dangerous to pets are being targeted by the Government in a major drive to improve animal health and welfare. Some herbal and homeopathic products are claiming …
Published on Thursday 16 December 2010 at 2:30pm To help authorities and emergency services plan for the risk of flooding in the unlikely event that a reservoir failed, maps showing areas that could flood have now been published online. Dam breach …
Published on Thursday 16 December 2010 at 10:34am Iain Ferguson has been appointed as Defra’s Lead Non-Executive Director. Iain, who has extensive experience in the private sector including six years as the Chief Executive of Tate and Lyle plc, …
Published on Thursday 16 December 2010 at 10:09am Defra today published the final results from the Department’s Survey of Commercial and Industrial Waste Arisings 2010, according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. The …
Published on Thursday 16 December 2010 at 10:11am This National Statistics release covers 2009 results from the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) for UK emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic …
Published on Thursday 16 December 2010 at 12:01am A new anti-littering message, ‘Love Where You Live’, was announced today on the back of new statistics which show that England’s litter problem is not improving. The Local Environment Quality …
