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Delivering on Animal Welfare

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 26 May 2023 - Categories: Nature
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There has been widespread online coverage following the Government’s update in the House yesterday on the status of the Kept Animals Bill. 

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Better welfare conditions for millions of farm animals during transit

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 18 August 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories

In today’s blog, we look at our new welfare rules for transporting farm animals.

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Coverage of WWF's Living Planet Report, the Fisheries Bill 'watershed moment', and salt marsh helps save a Cumbrian farm

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 30 October 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories
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On today's blog we look at WWF's Living Planet Report 2018 and the use of salt marsh land to graze cattle.

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Wednesday 7 March: Pine martens and response to water outages

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 7 March 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories

On the blog today we look at the impact of pine martens on red squirrel populations and Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey's address to the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 6 March) following the disruption to water supply in the South of …

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Monday 5 March - World Wildlife Day,

Posted by: sophiecourt, Posted on: 5 March 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories
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On the blog today we look at the importance of big cats following World Wildlife Day and outline how we are protecting our wildlife with future farming policy.

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Monday 26 February: Starbucks Coffee cup trail, US dairy imports and Watervoles

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 26 February 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories
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...our carrier bag charge. We are carefully considering the EAC Committee’s recent recommendations on coffee cups and will respond shortly. US dairy imports Photo credit: Thinkstock Today’s I newspaper infers...

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Thursday 8 February - Call for evidence on third party puppy sales ban,

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 8 February 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories
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In today's blog post we update on the new call for evidence on third party puppy sales ban and discuss method of slaughter meat labelling.

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