Wildlife, animals, biodiversity and ecosystems

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Bringing your pet dog, cat or ferret to the UK
Taking pets abroad on holiday or to live - pet passports, PETS travel scheme, microchipping, rabies vaccinations, quarantine, travelling with assistance dogs
Hunting and shooting wildlife
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
Report a dead or injured animal
Report a dead or injured animal such as a badger, fox or domestic pet found on the road
Controlling your dog in public
You can be fined if your dog is out of control in public - find out about Dog Control Orders, banned dogs, dog fouling and reporting a dangerous dog
Get your dog microchipped
How to get your dog fitted with a microchip: when to get it done, who can do it, how to update your details, what to do when buying a dog

Animal welfare
Detailed guide
7 December 2017
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Animal welfare legislation: protecting pets
Detailed guide
18 April 2013
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Pet travel: approved air, sea and rail carriers and routes
Guidance
12 October 2018
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Register land you use to keep livestock
- Detailed guide
- 17 July 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Live transport: welfare regulations
- Detailed guide
- 29 August 2012
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

18 October 2018News story

Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Asian hornet: UK sightings in 2018
- 15 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Guatemala joins the Americas to combat illegal wildlife trade
- 15 October 2018
- World news story
IWT Conference 2018: Declaration commits over 50 countries to action for endangered species
- 12 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for International Development, and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- News story
Flying success for Bats in Churches project
- 12 October 2018
- Natural England
- Press release

Salmonella in livestock production in Great Britain, 2017
- 19 October 2018
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
West nile virus in owls in Germany
- 17 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Classical swine fever in pigs in Japan
- 16 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Goats: TSE surveillance statistics
- 12 October 2018
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Sheep: TSE surveillance statistics
- 12 October 2018
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research

Draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill 2017 11 October 2018
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Consultation outcome

Date closed 31 January 2018
Review of approach to issuing animal test certificates for veterinary medicines 10 October 2018
Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Consultation outcome

Date closed 24 April 2015
Crouch and Roach Estuaries protected sites: consultation outcome 2 October 2018
Natural England

Consultation outcome

Date closed 02 March 2018
Declaration: London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade 2018
- 16 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for International Development, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Home Office
- Policy paper
Darwin Plus grant: Penguins in the Southern Ocean
- 28 September 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Case study

APHA regulatory and compliance policy
- 20 September 2018
- Closed organisation: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Corporate report
Review of controls on imports of animals and animal products: April 2016 to March 2017
- 12 September 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Corporate report
Cumbria BogLIFE project
- 14 August 2018
- Natural England
- Corporate report
Animals in Science Committee: members' register of interests
- 24 July 2018
- Animals in Science Committee
- Transparency
Publications under section 24A Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015
- 4 July 2018
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Corporate report

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