Wildlife

More than 40 organisations, including River Action and RSPCA, pen open letter to Steve Reed urging Defra to back British farming

UFU president William Irvine said there was extremely limited focus on the most critical issue – the need for an effective eradication programme addressing all sources of infection

Instead of getting angry with referees on the football pitch, Mr Jones has found a new annoyance in life: walkers who 'encroach' and 'fail' to stick to footpaths on his farm

Nick von Westenholz said ‘a new challenge beckons, and the GWCT is an amazing organisation at the forefront of so many of the issues facing land managers right now

This is a joint role between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Defra

The Scottish Greens claimed the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 was acting as a 'loophole' in the fox hunting ban. But politicians argued the legislation's licensing scheme had enabled farmers to control predators on farmland

"We need connectivity where we live and work, not in our most fragile and remote wild places"

With a new type of farming tenancy being rolled out by the Crown Estate, FG's chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Paul Sedgwick about the estate’s plans

Farmers have claimed the budget cut could see more than 500,000-acres of land taken away from nature for future generations.

Defra said the new approach will use a 'data-led and scientific approach to end the badger cull by the end of this parliament'