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Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Apply to control wild birds, including the lesser black-backed gull and herring gull, to conserve plants and animals or protect public health and safety.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is the statutory adviser to the government and devolved administrations on UK and international nature conservation. Its work contributes to maintaining and enriching biological diversity, conserving geological features and sustaining natural systems. JNCC is...
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Government partners with conservation charity ZSL to launch app update allowing tracking and logging of creatures in waters around British Overseas Territories.
In order to support the Government’s ambition to protect and restore clean healthy, productive and biologically diverse marine ecosystems, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) undertakes a range of marine conservation activities.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
How fishing is assessed and managed in marine protected areas (MPA)
Regulations and guidance on fees and charging for environmental and other regulatory functions for offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities.
The Churches Conservation Trust is the national charity protecting churches at risk. It repairs damage and works with local communities to revive churches. Churches Conservation Trust works with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
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