Environment, Food and Agriculture News
Caring for the Claddagh Visitor Gifting Scheme
The Department of Environment, Food & Agriculture is to introduce a visitor gifting scheme for the Sulby Claddaghs. The scheme, called Caring for the...
Monday, 17 March 2014
New list of prohibited animals
Tynwald has agreed a new Schedule to the Wild Animals (Restriction on Importation etc) Act 1980. This specifies animals which may only be imported and kept on...
Monday, 17 February 2014
Reservoir anglers invited to meet with DEFA
With this year’s recreational freshwater fishing season soon to start, the Department of Environment, Food & Agriculture, in conjunction with Troutlodge,...
Friday, 14 February 2014
Nominations for the 2014 Tomorrow's Farmer Award
The search is on to find the very best farmers on the Isle of Man as the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture launches the nomination process for...
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Illegal lopping of trees at Port-e-Chee Meadow
A Port Soderick man has been fined £2,000 plus costs for cutting trees deemed as Registered under the Tree Preservation Act 1993. Martin Marlow of Quine’s Hill...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
DEFA Minister announces the formation of a Coastal Erosion Working Group
DEFA Minister Phil Gawne has announced the formation of a Coastal Erosion Working Group that will seek options to slow the rate of erosion on the Kirk Michael...
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Isle of Man joins tri-partite agreement for movement of horses
The Tri Partite Agreement (TPA) is a formal agreement* between Ireland, United Kingdom and France which provides that certain categories of horses may move...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Minister "very encouraged by industry's strong support for disease control"
The Department of Environment Food and Agriculture is bringing forward a Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Order (BVD Order) to control the prevalence of BVD infection,...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Sea level rise will bring more coastal flooding
With sea level rise of between 11cm and 78cm (approx. 4in and 2 ½ft) expected by the year 2100 coastal flooding events like we have witnessed over the last week...
Friday, 10 January 2014
Department publishes details of its submissions to the Environment and Infrastructure Policy Review Committee
The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture has published details of its submission that was recently provided as evidence to the Tynwald Environment...
Friday, 10 January 2014