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From Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • Animal welfare boosted by new law coming into force

    The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 come into force today

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • BPS 2018 payments exchange rate set

    The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed the exchange rate for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2018 payments made in sterling

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Darwin Plus grant: Penguins in the Southern Ocean

    Darwin’s support to monitoring penguins in the Southern Ocean has led to one of the largest citizen science ventures in the world.

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  • Keeping wildlife out of illegal trade

    Zac Goldsmith MP, London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade Champion and John E Scanlon AM, Special Envoy, African Parks, write about their priorities for the London conference

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Dry weather support secured for livestock farmers

    Further provisions for livestock farmers struggling to access animal feed have been introduced today with immediate effect

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Gove calls for 30 per cent of world’s oceans to be protected by 2030

    UK government makes ambitious call to treble internationally-agreed targets for ocean protection.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Bluetongue virus detected and dealt with in two imported cattle

    Bluetongue does not affect human health or food safety.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Asian hornet: Second Fowey nest destroyed

    A second nest in Fowey, Cornwall, has been destroyed and the public are asked to remain vigilant for Asian hornets.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Appointments to National Park and AONB boards

    Appointments have been made to England's National Park Authorities and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Conservation Boards.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • £3m support scheme launched to reduce air pollution from farming

    A new team of experts officially start today, backed with £3 million of funding to help farmers reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • New outreach centre launched to help boost wildlife

    A landmark outreach centre has officially opened today at Humberhead Peatlands NNR in Yorkshire.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Bridging Payments for Environmental Stewardship customers

    Farmers and land managers who claimed for 2016 and / or 2017 will have received at least 75% of their payment for those years by the end of September

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • UK Government Agriculture Bill - Scotland myth-buster

    Agriculture is devolved and will remain devolved, this Bill does not change that

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • New data shows drop in bovine TB as further measures to fight disease unveiled

    Fall in new confirmed TB cases in Gloucestershire and Somerset demonstrates progress in delivering 25-year TB Strategy.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Minister Eustice Oral Statement on Scallops

    Minister Eustice's statement in the House of Commons on scallops.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • The Ivory Bill: A Huge Tusk

    Government Legal Department (GLD) lawyers have been providing crucial legal advice to bring about tough legislation to ban ivory sales in the UK

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Landmark Agriculture Bill to deliver a Green Brexit

    Michael Gove sets out major post-Brexit policy to invest in the environment and take back control for farmers after almost 50 years under EU rules

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Asian hornet: Fowey nest destroyed as two new sightings confirmed in Liskeard and Hull

    Two more sightings of Asian hornets have been confirmed and surveillance activity is underway.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Grants for creating woodland available all year round

    Government increases access for landowners to receive woodland creation grants.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • Cotswolds bakery proves an export success

    Consumers in Japan are set to get a taste of the best of South West baking as heritage Cotswolds bakery, Huffkins, fulfils its first significant export contract.

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    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government