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