Policy papers and consultations

The contingency plan outlines how Defra, Welsh Government, and their operational partners prepare for and respond to outbreaks of aquatic animal disease.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 24 July 2023

This contingency plan describes how the government will manage an outbreak or incident of exotic notifiable disease of animals in England.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 17 July 2023

Strategies that propose how and where to recover nature and improve the wider environment across England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 June 2023

Action the government is taking to reduce the impact of nutrient pollution on protected sites and enable sustainable development.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 June 2023

This plan sets out the UK's 21 international ambitions to help protect our plants and trees.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 21 June 2023

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the GL43 gamebird general licence, valid from 31 May 2023 to 30 May 2025.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 31 May 2023

Joint declaration launching the UK–Brazil Partnership on Green and Inclusive Growth at the Strategic Dialogue between the UK and Brazil on 24 May 2023.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 26 May 2023

The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) is an international research and development programme. It funds research into natural solutions for climate change and poverty.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 24 May 2023

We would like to know what you think about extending the Ivory Act (2018) to other ivory bearing species.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 23 May 2023

Seeking views on how the UK can encourage international climate and nature action over the next decade.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 March 2023

How the draft river basin management plans have been updated and a summary of the programmes of measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 30 March 2023

Seeking views on how Local Nature Recovery Strategies should be prepared and what should be included.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 23 March 2023

Evidence on the ecosystem risks and benefits of full prohibition of industrial sandeel fishing in UK waters of the North Sea

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 March 2023

Providing a framework on how to minimise the risks posed by invasive non-native species.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 27 February 2023

The consultation sets out our proposals, and seeks views, on how biodiversity net gain will work in practice.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 21 February 2023

This document sets out the UK government's approach to the Arctic, and provides an update to the UK Arctic policy framework.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 9 February 2023

Details of the plan to protect plant biosecurity in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 9 January 2023

We want your views on the draft plans to help shape the management of the water environment. They will help us update the current river basin management plans.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2022

The role of international finance when financing biodiversity.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 16 December 2022

This statement sets the direction of UK fisheries management.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 6 December 2022