- Guidance: Code of Good Agricultural Practice for reducing ammonia emissions 01/01/2024
This Code of Good Agricultural Practice (COGAP) provides best practice guidance for reducing ammonia emissions from farms in England.
- Guidance: Beavers: licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges (CL50) 01/01/2024
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
- Statutory guidance: Trapping wild birds: standard licence conditions (GL33) 01/01/2024
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
- Statutory guidance: Wild birds: licence to kill or take for public health or safety (GL41) 01/01/2024
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to preserve public health or safety.
- Statutory guidance: Wild birds: licence to kill or take to prevent serious damage (GL42) 01/01/2024
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to prevent serious damage.
- Statutory guidance: Wild birds: licence to kill or take for conservation purposes (GL40) 01/01/2024
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
- Guidance: Non-hazardous waste: treatment and disposal 01/01/2024
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
- Guidance: Livestock at farm shows and markets: welfare regulations 01/01/2024
Laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, including the suitability of pens, cages or hutches
- Guidance: Poultry welfare off the farm 01/01/2024
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
- Guidance: Grassland derogations for livestock manure in nitrate vulnerable zones 01/01/2024
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you’re allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
- News story: New legal restrictions on XL Bully dog now in force 31/12/2023
It is now illegal to breed, sell, advertise, gift, exchange, and abandon these dogs or let them stray.
- Press release: Storm overflows monitoring hits 100% target 30/12/2023
Every storm overflow across England’s water network is now monitored.
