• Bird Flu Update March 2023 – Our Science Work
    In summer 2022, the UK’s seabird populations were hit extremely hard by HPAI, with tens of thousands of birds dying across the UK. Today’s guest blog by Jean Duggan, Policy Assistant for Avian Influenza...
  • Bird flu update from Islay, October 2022
    The bird flu virus has had catastrophic effects on the UK’s breeding seabirds this summer, causing thousands of deaths and affecting the whole coast of the UK. Particularly badly affected were gannets...
  • Bird Flu Update June 2022
    The 2021/22 outbreak of HPAI is still affecting wild bird populations in the UK. This has been the worst ever outbreak of HPAI in the UK and has not only affected a large number of birds but is ongoing...
  • Science to shape our views
    There’s a lot of noise from the climate sceptics at the moment, as no doubt you’ll have seen. I’m confounded by the dismissal of science and hard information as we build and shape our views, activities...
  • Bird flu
    We don't hear much about bird flu - possibly better called poultry flu - these days. A few years ago the media were full of it and how it might threaten the poultry industry here in the UK and elsewhere...