We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
Apply for a licence to move and keep certain non-native (alien) species for animal welfare purposes.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
Use the correct form to explain why your application meets the licence criteria and that there’s no satisfactory alternative to your planned activity.
Find out how you could do the SFI action for moorland.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Read about temporary adjustments to agri-environment scheme options and actions in 2024 due to wet weather.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Read about the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for low input grassland, what land is eligible for each action and what you need to do to get paid.
How to plan for and manage the risks associated with oak processionary moth (OPM) on oak trees on your land.
Find out about our series of sensitivity maps which indicate where there are likely to be fewer sensitivities to woodland creation in England.
What you can do to help reduce the risk of bovine tuberculosis (TB) infection in your herd.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).