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Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Government partners with conservation charity ZSL to launch app update allowing tracking and logging of creatures in waters around British Overseas Territories.
How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
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.
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...
Get a general licence to trap stoats to conserve vulnerable wild birds.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
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.
Use Natural England’s advice packages to find out if your activity, proposal or area has a potential impact on MPAs and the species and habitats within them.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a protected species for survey, research or conservation work.
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