Guidance: Avian influenza (bird flu): cases and disease control zones in England

Current and suspected cases of avian influenza (bird flu) in the UK and the disease control measures in place.




50 projects receive up to £100,000 each to boost investment in nature

Projects include rewetting lowland peat to grow plant fibre material to use as padding for clothes.




Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on European sites and within 500m of their boundary (GL43)

Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on European sites and within their 500m buffer zones.




Policy paper: Gamebirds: decision to issue the gamebird general licence for 2022 to 2023

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the gamebird general licence (GL43), valid from 31 May 2022 to 30 May 2023.




Press release: 50 projects receive up to £100,000 each to boost investment in nature

Projects include rewetting lowland peat to grow plant fibre material to use as padding for clothes.