Skip to main content

Defra Press Office

Bumper breeding season for little terns and Record-breaking public support for using the tax system to reduce single-use plastics

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Weekly stories

Bumper breeding season for little terns The breeding success of the UK’s second rarest shorebird has been covered by The Northumberland Gazette and the Berwick Advertiser. 17 juvenile little terns joined the population at Natural England’s Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve …

£20 million funding programme to improve crop productivity and LadBible film on counter-poaching training in Gabon

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Weekly stories
Picture of a tractor in a crop field

Innovate UK's announcement on the first funding call for the ‘Transforming Food Production’ programme and a film from the LadBible website on British soldiers training rangers in Gabon to protect forest elephants.

Export success as global sales of UK food and drink soar, grouse moor owners and the Monsanto court ruling - Monday 13 August

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Weekly stories

On today's blog we look at export success as global sales of UK food and drink soar, grouse moor owners and the Monsanto court ruling on glyphosate.

Alleged illegal exporting of recycling waste, the new animal welfare code published for laying hens and a decision is yet to be made on lynx reintroduction - Thursday 9 August

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Weekly stories

On today's blog we look at the alleged illegal exporting of recycling waste, the new animal welfare code published for laying hens and a decision is yet to be made on lynx reintroduction.

Minister Coffey in the Yorkshire Post, an announcement on animal cruelty, a response to the Guardian, the new Taiwan pork market and our work on air pollution

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Weekly stories
Puffin

An opinion piece in the Yorkshire Post from Minister Coffey, our announcement on animal cruelty sentencing, a response to the Guardian on an article on our environmental body, a new Taiwan pork market and our work on air pollution.