Guidance: Pet travel: approved air, sea and rail carriers and routes

Check the transport companies and routes you can use to bring your pet cat, dog or ferret to England, Scotland or Wales.




Policy paper: Gamebirds: decision to issue the modified GL45 gamebird general licence for 2024 to 2025

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the modified GL45 gamebird general licence, valid from 7 June 2024 to 1 February 2025, which replaces the version published on 22 March 2024.




Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within 500m of their boundary (GL45) 

As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.  




Recreational bluefin tuna fishing permits introduced in new legislation

A catch and release fishery will open in England this summer.




News story: Recreational bluefin tuna fishing permits introduced in new legislation

A catch and release fishery will open in England this summer.