National coverage of new biosecurity strategy to protect food security, trade and plant health
Today we are looking at media coverage of new action plan to protect food security, trade and plant health
Updated: Mon Jan 09 2023
Apply for a Slurry Infrastructure grant
A fortnight ago, we made full guidance for the new Slurry Infrastructure grant available on GOV.UK. I said I'd blog again when it was time to apply. I'm pleased to say that the first round is now open for applications and it will stay open until 31 January 2023.
Updated: Tue Jan 03 2023
Increased fishing opportunities worth £750 million agreed for 2023
Today we look at coverage after the UK reached an agreement with the EU to secure over £280 million of fishing opportunities for the UK fishing industry.
Updated: Wed Dec 21 2022
Snake Lane Weir Removal and Fish Pass Project
While stock of Atlantic Salmon in some English rivers has been struggling in recent years, Derbyshire's River Derwent, which flows into the River Trent, has seen stock steadily improving. Over the last 10 years, the Environment Agency and partner organisations ...
Updated: Wed Dec 21 2022
In deep water? Understanding the future climate risks to Pitcairn's coral reefs
The UK overseas territory of the Pitcairn Islands is one of the most remote in the world. Spanning the four small islands of Pitcairn, Oeno, Henderson, and Ducie, they form part of a remote volcanic outcrop in the Southern ...
Updated: Mon Dec 19 2022
Seasonal workers visas for 2023
Defra has announced 45,000 visas for seasonal workers will be available to horticulture businesses next year - an uplift of 15,000 compared to what was available at the start of 2022.
Updated: Mon Dec 19 2022
The "battery-powered" partnerships of Nature recovery
Blog by Tony Juniper CBE, Chair of Natural England I'm writing this blog from COP 15 in Montreal where nations of the world have come together to discuss one of the most urgent issues of our age: how do we ...
Updated: Thu Dec 15 2022
How we used co-design to create vet visits
Farmers, vets, industry representatives, and colleagues in government are shaping the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway together. The first step of the pathway is the Annual Health and Welfare Review. In this post, we share how we used co-design to create the yearly vet visits.
Updated: Wed Dec 14 2022
Creating new wetland habitats on the River Thame, Buckinghamshire  
As we mark Biodiversity COP15, Hilary Phillips, Senior Project Officer for the River Thame Conservation Trust, explains how partnership working has transformed 32 hectares of floodplain grassland across two sites in Buckinghamshire into complex wetland habitats. At Eythrope on the ...
Updated: Mon Dec 12 2022
Guardian coverage of the Natural Flood Management Programme report
Today we are looking at coverage in the Guardian of the new Environment Agency report which evaluates the impact of our national Natural Flood Management Programme.
Updated: Fri Dec 09 2022
Reflecting on a decade of ash dieback response in the UK
Barnaby Wylder is our Plant Health Forestry Lead in the North West of England. In this blog he reflects upon ten years of handling ash dieback cases, and what the future might hold for our ash trees.
Updated: Fri Dec 09 2022
Resetting our rivers - how taking them back to 'stage zero' could help nurture nature
Matt Parr works in Lincolnshire's Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology team and has been with the Environment Agency for 10 years. Here, he explains how he's working to restore the glory of local rivers by resetting them to their natural state, ...
Updated: Fri Dec 09 2022
Watch: Sustainable farming in the Lake District
In this film, local farm facilitator Danny Teasdale explains how environmental improvements go hand in hand with food production in the Lake District.
Updated: Fri Dec 09 2022
Future Farming Podcast: Young people in farming
To celebrate National Young Farmers' Week 2022, Matt McGuire welcomes 3 up-and-coming young people in farming to the podcast. Charlie Beaty, Ed Dungait and Charlotte Garbutt discuss how to get started in farming, the importance of education and the range of roles in agriculture. They also discuss the benefits new talent can bring to the sector.
Updated: Wed Dec 07 2022
Food supply and food security
Today we are looking at media coverage of NFU comments on food supply and security.
Updated: Tue Dec 06 2022
UK pushes for ambitious and effective global plastic treaty at first negotiations meeting
Today we are looking at media coverage of the UK attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meeting to negotiate the new legally binding treaty on plastic pollution that was held in Uruguay.
Updated: Mon Dec 05 2022
COP27 - a personal perspective
Another year, another climate change COP! COP27 (Conference of Parties) was my second, having attended COP26 in Glasgow last year. This year's was distinctly different for me: partly because of the location - Glasgow and Sharm el Sheikh are ...
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
Saline incursion on the Norfolk Broads
Fisheries officer, Arnie Warsop, explains what saline incursion is and how the work of the Environment Agency protects up to half a million fish from these incursion events on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads.
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
Tree Production Innovation Fund: 2022 successful applicants
Megan Shirley is the Forestry Commission's Forest Nurseries & Innovation Grants, Incentives Manager. Here she talks about the successful applicants from the 2022 Tree Production Innovation Funds. To reach our net-zero tree planting commitments, it's vital that there are a ...
Updated: Thu Dec 01 2022
Water crowfoot, or how we learned to love Ranunculus
Ranunculus sounds like a spell from the wizard world of Harry Potter. However, it is a lovely aquatic plant you would see in the UK's chalk streams. The presence of Ranunculus is usually a benefit, rarely a nuisance. But the ...
Updated: Wed Nov 30 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
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
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
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
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