Alastair Ward receives funding from the BBSRC and Defra. But the disease doesn’t only threaten poultry and egg production – it also threatens wild bird populations in a way that it never has before.
Birds are a prominent feature of the new BBC nature documentary Wild Isles, presented by David Attenborough. “We are a nation of bird lovers,” says Chris Howard, one of the show’s producers, “birds ...
Farmers across swathes of Britain have been ordered to keep their flocks indoors as cases of bird flu surge across Europe.