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Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 28 October 2022

Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 25 May 2022

Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 7 September 2021

bTB-positive alpaca known as 'Geronimo' has been euthanised to prevent the spread of disease.

• Updated: 31 August 2021

Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 8 June 2021

APHA to provide free access to samples for commercial development and enhancement of diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis (TB)

• Updated: 24 February 2021

Biosecurity Minister Lord Gardiner attended the first Bovine TB Paternship meeting today

• Updated: 11 February 2021

Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 7 September 2020

Natural England has published licenses for areas that will undertake badger control operations in England this autumn.

• Updated: 7 September 2020

Strategy includes field trials of a cattle vaccine, plans for badger vaccination and improved testing

• Updated: 5 March 2020

Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.

• Updated: 11 September 2019

Direction to Natural England on the licensing of badger control in Derbyshire.

• Updated: 6 September 2019

Authorisation for supplementary badger control in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset.

• Updated: 20 June 2019

Farmers who have managed to stay clear of bovine TB for at least six years will be able to revert to annual, rather than six-monthly, testing.

• Updated: 18 December 2018

Authorisation letters, licences, and restrictions relating to licensed actions on protected sites.

• Updated: 18 December 2018

Fall in new confirmed TB cases in Gloucestershire and Somerset demonstrates progress in delivering 25-year TB Strategy.

• Updated: 13 September 2018

Authorisation for supplementary badger control in Gloucestershire and Somerset.

• Updated: 6 July 2018

The government has announced a review of its 25 year Bovine TB strategy.

• Updated: 16 February 2018

Grants for badger vaccination schemes and six-monthly testing in high risk areas will help to prevent disease and catch it more quickly.

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Authorisation for supplementary badger control in Gloucestershire and Somerset.

• Updated: 11 September 2017