Northumberland launches strategy to protect white-clawed crayfish

Strategy will help to preserve this threatened species in the future




Court orders former Northumberland recycling business to pay over £50,000 after breaching environmental regulations

Company failed to finance the cost of waste electrical electronic equipment collection and treatment




Policy paper: Notifiable avian disease control strategy

How we manage outbreaks of notifiable avian disease (NAD) in Great Britain.




Corporate information: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs – Statistics at Defra

We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.




Breeding for an extra lamb chop

Sheep farmers can now breed for extra chops – thanks to information being provided by CT scans of live lambs.