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Quality of Life Counts
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Indicators for a strategy for sustainable development for the United Kingdom. 2004 Update. Updating the baseline assessments made in 1999. Defra, March 2004.
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Quality of Life Report for Hertfordshire
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This document reports on the status of the local environment around Hertfordshire and includes information on biodiversity, energy, waste, crime, water, land use and population. Hertfordshire Environmental Forum, 2003.
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Rabbits: Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock (PB0080)
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The 1987 (amended 1999) Defra Code of Good Practice which relates to rabbits. It explains the regulations and provides advice on how the welfare of rabbits can be safeguarded and their behavioural needs met under a variety of management systems. Defra, PB0080, 1999.
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Rabbits: Management options for preventing damage (TIN003)
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Rabbits cause extensive economic losses to agricultural, horticultural and forestry interests and are considered to be a major pest. This leaflet provides advice on the damage, its control and legal considerations. Natural England, TIN003, May 2010.
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Rabbits: The prevention of rabbit damage to trees in woodland (FCPN2)
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A Practice Note on preventing damage to trees in woodland including background, tree damage, management, control measures, such as physical barriers and chemical repellents, and control of rabbit numbers. Forestry Commission, FCPN002, July 1998.
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Rabbits: Use of cage-trapping to prevent agricultural damage (TIN024)
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Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) cause extensive economic losses to agricultural, horticultural and forestry interests. Landowners and occupiers therefore require cost–effective and humane means of controlling rabbit numbers. The use of cage traps, baited with carrot or other palatable material, is a humane and effective way of managing rabbits. Natural England, TIN024, 17 May 2010.
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Rabbits: Use of fencing to prevent agricultural damage (TIN023)
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Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) cause extensive economic losses to agricultural, horticultural and forestry interests. Landowners and occupiers therefore require cost-effective and humane means of controlling rabbit numbers. One of the most common forms of managing the problems rabbits pose is to deny them access to vulnerable areas. Fencing is currently recommended as a humane and environmentally acceptable means of excluding rabbits and thereby reducing damage to agricultural, horticultural or forestry interests. Natural England, TIN023, 5 November 2007.
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Ragwort - Code of Practice on How to Prevent the Spread of Ragwort (PB9840)
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This DEFRA Code of Practice aims to significantly reduce the risk that livestock might be poisoned by Ragwort. The Code provides comprehensive guidance on when, where and how
to control ragwort. It is intended for use by all landowners and occupiers. Defra, PB9840, revised March 2007.
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Ragwort - Towards a Management Strategy
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The following Information Note has been prepared by English Nature to help inform the debate as to the policy that should be adopted for a common ragwort Senecio jacobaea management strategy in the UK. English Nature, June 2003.
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Ragwort Control - Information and Photo Gallery
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Ragwort is one of five injurious weeds covered by the provisions of The Weeds Act 1959. Ragwort is poisonous to livestock & can cause liver damage with potentially fatal consequences. This section provides basic information on control & management of Ragwort. It also provides access to a photo gallery of Ragwort through its lifecycle to aid ID. September 2004. Published by ADLib. Also provides access to a poster on ragwort.
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Ragwort: Guidance on the disposal options for common ragwort (PB11050)
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This guide offers help and advice on how to dispose of Ragwort correctly and stop its re-growth. It supplements the advice given in the Code of Practice on how to prevent the spread of ragwort. The guidelines include advice on how to dispose of ragwort from all types of land and highlights that incorrect disposal is likely to result in further spread through seed dispersal and re-growth in root sections. Defra, PB11050, September 2005.
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Rare British Plants
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This resource contans a wealth of detailed information on rare British plants produced by Plantlife International. It includes species dossiers on vasular plants (e.g. Adder's-Tongue, Tower Mustard, Juniper), bryophytes (e.g Baltic Bog Moss, Veilwort) and lichens (e.g. Churchyard Lecanactis). Various publications dates 2002-2004.
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Rat Poison - The Threat to Red Kites and Other Wildlife
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The newer second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides can persist & accumulate in the bodies of non-target wildlife, eventually killing them. This leaflet gives guidance on how to minimise the risks to birds of prey when undertaking rodent control. This leaflet was modified by the Welsh Kite Trust/Countryside Council for Wales/RSPB Cymru from a leaflet produced by English Nature and RSPB with the assistance of the HSE. December 2004.
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Rat Poison and the Threat to Birds of Prey
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As well as being toxic to wildlife, rodenticides can persist in the bodies of rodents & non-target wildlife. Birds of prey, including red kites, barn owls, buzzards & kestrels may ingest rodenticides through their prey, as do predatory mammals, such as polecats. This leaflet gives guidance on how to minimise the risks to birds of prey when undertaking rodent control. English Nature, 2004.
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Rats: Control of Rats with Rodenticides - A Complete Guide to Best Practice
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The most tempting solution to a rat problem is to reach for the nearest rodenticide. Yet this should be the last, not first, line of defence. This fact sheet takes you though the steps needed to build a strategy to control rats that is environmentally and economically sound. Sponsored by PSD, produced by Central Science Laboratory (CSL), 2004.
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