The Bluetongue Protection Zone will be extended on Monday 7 July to cover all of the East Riding of Yorkshire (including the City of Kingston upon Hull), South Yorkshire (made up of the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield), Gloucestershire (including the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire) and Warwickshire.
Protection Zone restrictions will apply to those livestock keepers coming into the new extended zone. Animals can only be moved out of the Protection Zone if they are vaccinated or moving for slaughter, subject to meeting certain conditions. Animals will also be able to be moved between the Protection Zones in Wales and England, subject to the conditions on the transit licence.
Livestock keepers may apply to have land which they occupy within 8km of the Bluetongue Surveillance Zone to be designated as part of that zone.
This announcement closely follows last weeks extension of the protection zone to Cornwall and into the Welsh restricted zone.
For further details visit the Defra website [1].
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Links:
[1] http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/bluetongue/index.htm
[2] http://www.rbst.org.uk/history.go%28-1%29