Publications

This year Clean Air Day takes place on Thursday 16th June.

Under the Animal Health Law, use of an Approved Quarantine Establishment (AQE) is one option available to facilitate exports of Breeding and Production (B&P) cattle to certain EU Member States if they have certain disease freedoms or approved eradication programmes.

Information on calves exported from N. Ireland in the last 5 years.

Options for developing environment-based economic growth in rural areas in Europe. 

The original work to derive a river water body set for Northern Ireland was undertaken in 2003-2004. At first 719 water bodies were proposed but this was later reduced to 550.

• On 18 September 2019 DAERA launched a Public Discussion Document on a proposed Environment Strategy for Northern Ireland.
• By the end of the discussion period on 5 February 2020 approximately 2,500 stakeholder responses had been received.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) intends to issue a questionnaire in mid-July to understand how agri-food businesses are intending to: (1) move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland from 01 October 2023; and (2) respond to Phase 1 '

How do I make a complaint if I am unhappy with the quality of service I received?

Our complaints procedure is easy to use and you can make a complaint if you are unhappy with the quality of service you received in any of the following ways:

This paper describes how 2015 river continuity classification was put together. It is based on the first river basin plan cycle 575 river water body set.

This document is intended to provide an overarching framework and to outline the general approach that will be adopted to monitoring Northern Ireland’s aquatic environment for the years 2006 to 2007 and beyond, highlighting the drivers for the work, the main one being th

There are many morphological pressures on the marine environment around Northern Ireland. Our ports play an important role in transporting goods in and out of the country.

A ban came into operation in Northern Ireland on 1st January 2020 that prohibited certain types of fluorinated greenhouse gases ("F-gases") with a global warming potential ("GWP") greater than 2500 being used to service or refill refrigeration systems in NI

Abstraction refers to the process where water is removed from a surface water or groundwater body, either permanently or temporarily (for example, water can be temporarily diverted and then returned elsewhere within the same system).

Many fish species in inland and transitional (estuarine) waters support commercial and recreational fisheries.

A mapping exercise has been carried out to highlight how the Programme for Government (PfG) Outcomes Delivery Plan 2018 - 19 aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The monitoring arrangements for the Programme for Government will s

Please confirm the number and type of dangerous animals that are kept under license as pets in Northen Ireland?

Non-native invasive species are one of the greatest threats to biodiversity not only worldwide but specifically on islands including Ireland. The bloody-red shrimp (Hemimysis anomala) is one after being discovered in Lough Derg in the Shannon River Basin Distric

Tullyratty ASSI site citation documents and map

The Water Framework Directive aims to achieve good status in surface waters and groundwaters and ensure that there is no deterioration in the water quality of these waters.

The Islandmagee Gas Storage Project; comprises the construction by solution mining of seven underground caverns in the Permian salt strata approximately 1,700m below Larne Lough, off Islandmagee, County Antrim.