Contacting DAERA

There are lots of ways to contact us if you can’t find the information you need on this website.

Cattle Registration Line -  to register cattle births, deaths and movements call 0300 200 7855

Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Veterinary Public Health Welfare such as the services provided by your local DAERA Direct Office on livestock movements, animal welfare, disease control, and veterinary public health 0300 200 7840

Grants & Funding queries such aschanges to your business, Farm Sustainability Transition Scheme, Basic Payment Scheme, Beef Carbon Reduction, Suckler Cow Schemes or to submit a single application, Farming with Nature Transition Scheme or the Environmental Farming Scheme, Entitlements, Active farmer, young farmers/regional reserve, Reviews of decisions or Debt or Bacs 0300 200 7848

Forestry and Plant Health such as queries related toForest management, recreation, plant health including importing and exporting, Forest Service grants, felling licences, timber sales, plant import/export, felling licences call 0300 200 7850

CAFRE Education, Food, and Farming Advisory service visit the CAFRE website of if you need to speak to someone call 0300 200 7850

Inland Fisheries (rod licences, permits, public angling estate) visit the website or call 0300 200 7860

Rural needs visit the dedicated DAERA guidance hub

For details of your local Fishery office

For Sea fisheries queries email seafisheries@daera-ni.gov.uk

For Marine licencing queries email MarineLicensingTeam@daera-ni.gov.uk

For Aquaculture queries email AquacultureFishHealth@daera-ni.gov.uk

For Fish Health queries email Fish.Health@daera-ni.gov.uk

Find out how to make a complaint

Find out about travelling with pets

Find out more about Rural Affairs

For Media queries email pressoffice.group@daera-ni.gov.uk

For general queries use the search function on the DAERA website to help you find the information you need.  

Some other useful contacts

• Abstraction and Impoundment Licensing (AIL) team
• AFBI Headquarters
• Agri-food Inspection Branch - Feed Inspectorate contacts
• Air and Environmental Quality Unit
• Angling contact
• Carrier Bag Levy Team
• Chemicals and Industrial Pollution Policy (CIPP) Branch
• Climate Change, Green Growth, and Innovation
• Contacting DAERA in adverse weather conditions
• Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside (CNCC)
• DAERA AFIB PPH contacts
• DAERA Direct Regional offices
• daera.helpline@daera-ni.gov.uk
• DAERA Environment Fund Grant Team Contacts
• Drinking Water Inspectorate
• Environmental Crime
• Forest Service Contact
• Groundwater Authorisations Team
• Industrial Pollution and Radiochemical Inspectorate (IPRI)
• Land and Groundwater Team
• Marine and Fisheries Division
• Marine Conservation Team
• Marine Licensing Branch
• Marine Plan Team
• Marine Wildlife Team
• Natural Environment Related Datasets
• NIFAIS Programme
• Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA)
• Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) Board Secretariat
• Northern Ireland Squirrel Forum
• Planning Response Team
• Plant Health Inspection Branch Contact
• Portrush Coastal Zone Contact
• Producer responsibility unit - batteries
• Producer responsibility unit - End of Life vehicles (ELVs)
• Producer responsibility unit - packaging waste
• Producer responsibility unit - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
• Registration of Carriers
• Regulation Unit
• Reporting wrongdoing ("whistleblowing") - how to raise a concern
• Strategic Environmental Assessment Team
• Silage Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil (SSAFO)
• Transfrontier shipments of waste
• Veterinary Service Animal Health Group - Epizootic Disease, TSEs and Animal By Products
• Waste and Radioactivity Team
• Waste authorisation complaints
• Waste Management Team
• Waste strategy, landfill and producer responsibility team
• Water Appeals Commission
• Water Management Unit
• Water Related Datasets
• Wildlife team

Accessibility

• Text Relay (NGTS):
  • From a textphone: dial 18001 + number
  • From a telephone: dial 18002 + number