Winter - A time for giving, receiving .... and planting trees.
Get your woodland in the best shape with our tips for the best management practices to carry out in winter.
Updated: Wed Nov 30 2022
Free business advice: latest list of providers
Through the Future Farming Resilience Fund, any farmer or land manager in England who receives BPS (Basic Payment Scheme payments) is eligible to receive free business advice. In this post, I share the latest list of advice providers and explain how to get in touch.
Updated: Tue Nov 29 2022
Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds: 2022 successful applicants
Jack Clough is the Forestry Commission Grant Manager. Here he talks about the successful applicants from the 2022 Woods Into Management Forestry Innovation Funds. In the UK, it is often thought that woodlands should be left alone. However, much ...
Updated: Tue Nov 29 2022
Daily Express coverage of £20 million funding for woodlands
Today we are looking at media coverage of new Government funding for woodlands.
Updated: Mon Nov 28 2022
Times coverage of bathing water pollution inspections
Today we are looking at coverage in the Times of the Environment Agency's inspections of bathing water pollution incidents.
Updated: Sat Nov 26 2022
Anthropy's 'Vision for Britain': The Environment Agency welcomes a new leadership conference
A major new leadership gathering took over the Eden Project earlier this month, for three days of visioning, networking and partnering. A small EA team participated in the event. Here, Van Griffiths, Deputy Director of the Environment Agency's Sustainable Business ...
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
Boost for UK fishing industry with new infrastructure projects
There has been a widespread of coverage across the UK following our announcement that £20 million of funding has been awarded to winning seafood projects.
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
New scheme to protect our waterways from pollution and enable home building set to launch
by Mike Burke, Programme Director - Sustainable Development The Dasgupta review has shown that nature underpins everything we do, and investing in nature generates prosperity. Leonardo Da Vinci said that "water is the driving force of all nature", and no society ...
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
Antimicrobial resistance- working internationally to support local action
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) takes place this week, 18-24th November 2022, and aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices to avoid further emergence and spread of drug-resistant microbes. Cefas, the Animal and Plant ...
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
New Entrant Support Scheme: apply for the pilot
We want to better support those who want to enter farming and develop land-based businesses. One idea that we said we were keen to test through a pilot was incubation: providing tactical support to young businesses through the early stages of development. We put out a call for proposals from organisations to lead these projects through the new entrant support pilot. The bids we received over the summer were impressive. Now that we have pilot leads, you can apply to take part in the pilot.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
Slurry Infrastructure grant: guidance now available
Applications for the new slurry infrastructure grant will open on 6 December 2022. To help you prepare, we've made the full grant guidance available on GOV.UK.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
Storm overflow discharges in the media
This government wants clean and safe rivers, lakes and seas, and we have been clear that we will hold water companies to account if they do not comply with our environmental regulations.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
Establishing a conservation breeding programme for hen harriers in southern England
By: John Holmes, NE Strategy Director Natural England, in partnership with the International Centre for Birds of Prey (ICBP), is establishing a conservation breeding programme for hen harriers as part of a pioneering project to reintroduce this iconic species to ...
Updated: Wed Nov 23 2022
Environmental land management schemes: progress update
Yesterday, Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries and Janet Hughes, Programme Director, Future Farming and Countryside Programme appeared before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. The session was part of a committee inquiry into the rollout of the new environmental land management schemes.
Updated: Mon Nov 21 2022
Fish Observers: The life and 'sole' of collaborative fisheries science
It's World Fisheries Day! As world leaders in marine and aquatic science with 120 years of fisheries expertise, Cefas will be highlighting the importance of healthy ocean ecosystems and sustainable fisheries stocks across our social media channels. To celebrate, we ...
Updated: Mon Nov 21 2022
How we're working to improve the England Woodland Creation Offer application process
Alec Rhodes is the Forestry Commission's Head of Incentives Development and Compliance. In this blog post he looks at the work being done to improve the England Woodland Creation Offer application process.
Updated: Mon Nov 21 2022
Trees on farms: success stories for nature and people
In this guest blog from LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), read about the farmers incorporating trees into their farms to benefit their businesses, wildlife, community relationships, and climate change resilience.
Updated: Mon Nov 21 2022
Update on Environment Agency investigation
On 18 November 2021, the Environment Agency and Ofwat announced separate major investigations into possible unauthorised discharges at thousands of wastewater treatment works.
Updated: Fri Nov 18 2022
Further reports of egg shortages
There has been further coverage of some supermarkets reporting shortages in supplies of eggs, following the avian influenza outbreak and rising costs for farmers due to the war in Ukraine.
Updated: Thu Nov 17 2022
Want to help protect our trees? Find out what you can do with simple biosecurity
It is not always possible to see tree pests and diseases and they spread easily in soil or organic material carried on footwear, clothing, and bike tyres. Some tree diseases need water to disperse, so the risk of these being spread increases when conditions are wet.
Updated: Thu Nov 17 2022
Too hot to handle? Adapting to the impacts of marine climate change in the Gulf
As world leaders meet at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt this week, Cefas Middle East Programme Director Will Le Quesne discusses the challenge of climate change facing the world's ...
Updated: Tue Nov 15 2022
No excuse for illegally burning waste
People burn waste to avoid the charges for taking wastes to permitted waste sites for recovery or where this is not possible, disposal. This is waste crime.
Updated: Mon Nov 14 2022
Right tree, right place, for the right reasons
The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) sets out criteria and guidance for the sustainable management of forests and woodlands in the UK. Here are the seven key factors you need to consider.
Updated: Mon Nov 14 2022
Reducing energy and carbon emissions through our flood resilience work
As we mark COP27 'Energy Day', Dave Bonner, Flood Resilience Advisor, explains how his work alone has saved over 40 tonnes of carbon locally and over 600 tonnes nationally, a year.
Updated: Fri Nov 11 2022
Reducing energy use and carbon emissions from pumping
With 6 per cent of the Environment Agency's carbon emissions coming from the pumps we use to reduce flooding and drought, Steve Carman, Chartered Electrical Engineer, explains how his work in the South-East is helping to reduce this.
Updated: Fri Nov 11 2022