Wildlife

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'

The meeting took place on Helen Drinkall's upland beef and sheep farm in Lancashire and it was a chance for the Minister to see the issues upland farmers still have with the Sustainable Farming Incentive

The Government agency said Newquay farmer William Salmon had dumped waste at a disused quarry which had interfered with a badger sett

NFU president said the wording 'disrespects' the incredible efforts farmers and the industry have made to try and deliver TB eradication by 2038

It includes a 2 metre buffer strip and a hedgerow cutting ban from March 1 to August 31