Pet Charity Blue Cross has welcomed the EFRA Committee’s report but argues stringent regulations and tougher laws are necessary to safeguard the welfare of pets in the UK.

In a bid to give users easy access to their compendium data at any time, NOAH (National Office of Animal Health) has launched a new app at this week’s London Vet Show, which is now available for both Apple and Android phones. 

The Woodland Trust's James Cooper responds to Natural England's report into HS2's biodiversity and calls on the Government to better protect the UK's natural heritage in future infrastructure projects.

Responding to the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRACom) report on ‘Animal welfare in England: domestic pets’, which makes a number of recommendations to improve the implementation of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 but also calls for RSPCA to ‘step back’ from bringing prosecutions under the Act, Gudrun Ravetz, President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA), the UK’s leading body for vets, said:

For many years Blue Cross pet charity has been calling for more stringent regulations and tougher laws to safeguard the welfare of pets in the UK. EFRA’s latest report is a positive step in the right direction, but Government can still do more, says the charity.

EFRA Committee Chair Neil Parish MP writes to mark the publication of the Committee's report into animal welfare and domestic pets in the UK.

A new and targeted approach is needed to retrofit selective parts of the UK’s housing stock to allow it to contribute to a cost effective decarbonisation strategy, according to a report published today by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).

In support of this week’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week, NOAH (National Office of Animal Health) emphasises the important role of antibiotics in helping protect the health and welfare of our animals in the UK. 

NOAH (National Office for Animal Health) was joined by politicians and industry stakeholders in the House of Lords to highlight the vital role of the animal medicines industry for society and the food chain – essential for our high standards of animal health and welfare in the UK.

Today’s report on future flood prevention from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee is a welcome step forward in highlighting how Natural Flood Management measures can be used.

Former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson, Co-Chairman of Environmentalists for Europe, writes about how the UK will maintain environmental standards once it has formally left the European Union.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the British Veterinary Association have written to Theresa May to set out their concerns about Brexit

North Cornwall MP Scott Mann wants 'the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) torn up the day that our Article 50 negotiations are concluded'.

Leading veterinary organisations including the British Veterinary Association (BVA) have published advice to make sure hibernating pets have a healthy rest this winter.

Welsh Labour MP Madeleine Moon MP writes ahead of her debate today on ‘Policies, strategies and funding for environmental protection’ in light of the EU referendum.

The British public are becoming better informed when it comes to understanding the vital role veterinary medicines play in supporting the health and welfare of our farm animals and pets. 

Blue Cross is calling on all elderly care homes to have a clear pet policy, after the pet charity’s research found that 40% of UK care homes claim to be ‘pet friendly’ but there are often huge discrepancies in what this means in practice. 

MIMA is encouraged to hear the Prime Minister’s announcement today that the UK will ratify the Paris Agreement by the end of this year, and must now focus on putting in place the national policy framework necessary to deliver on the agreement and the UK’s own climate objectives.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Sub-Committee member Dr Paul Monaghan MP writes following his Westminster Hall debate on Badger culling and bovine TB.

Employees from Airbus Broughton took part in the 10th anniversary of the Big Dee Day on Friday, an annual clean-up of the River Dee.

A new survey from the British Veterinary Association reveals that 98% of vets have been asked to euthanise healthy pets

Almost all companion animal vets have been asked to euthanise healthy pets, with half (53%) saying this was not a rare occurrence and 98% of those who had been asked to euthanise a healthy pet citing the owner’s reason as their pet’s behaviour, reveal figures released today by the British Veterinary Association (BVA).

Sean Wensley, President of the British Veterinary Association, said:

Commenting on news reports that badger culls are to be carried out in five new areas of England in a bid to control bovine TB, Sean Wensley, President of the British Veterinary Association, said: