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Inaccurate reporting on foot and mouth disease controls

Inaccurate reporting on foot and mouth disease controls

There has been inaccurate media coverage regarding foot and mouth disease (FMD) controls with reports that it took six or seven days for controls on commercial imports to take effect and “allowed disease to enter the country.”

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Sir James Bevan on reaching net zero “not enough” to save our planet

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 16 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories
Picture showing a head shot of Environment Agency Chief Executive James Bevan

On today's blog we look at a speech by Sir James Bevan on why net zero alone won’t save our planet, urging greater action on climate adaptation.

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The Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 11 March 2021 - Categories: Uncategorized
An image of rolling green hills

Today we look at Farming trade media coverage of the publication of the Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot overview

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Consultation launched on environmental principles

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 11 March 2021 - Categories: Uncategorized
Image of Fawsley Park, Northamptonshire

Today we look at national and trade coverage of the government’s plans to protect the environment at the heart of future policy.

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Foie Gras

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 9 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories
A photo of a goose

In today's blog, we look at reports regarding the potential for future restriction of foie gras sales in the UK.

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Morrisons’ new net-zero pledge

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 9 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories

In today’s blog, we look at the announcement that Morrisons intend to become a first supermarket completely supplied by net zero carbon British farms by 2030.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 8 March 2021 - Categories: Uncategorized
Image of a sunset behind a pier on a beach

Today, on International Women’s Day, senior women from across Defra Group have set out why female leadership on climate change is so important.

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Reporting of the threshold for use of emergency pesticide authorisation not being met

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 3 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories
Sugar beet in a field

Today we look at the news that the emergency authorisation of a neonicotinoid pesticide treatment on this year’s sugar beet seed will not be used.

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Keeping animals under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 2 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories
Cheetah

Today we look at press coverage of the number of people keeping animals as pets under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976.

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Media coverage of the State of Nature campaign

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 1 March 2021 - Categories: Uncategorized
Chequered Skipper butterfly

On todays blog, we take a look coverage of the State of Nature campaign to reverse nature’s decline by 2030

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Public Accounts Committee report on flooding in England

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 26 February 2021 - Categories: Uncategorized
A flood warning sign, on a closed country road next to water logged fields in the Avon Valley, Hampshire, England. Flooded after an extreme amount of rainfall at the start of 2014

There has been media coverage today of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on flooding in the Telegraph, i News and Yorkshire Post. The Committee of MPs made the recommendation that house builders should bear the costs of paying to …

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