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How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Use National Character Area profiles to find descriptions, facts and data about the different landscapes of England.
The People and Nature Surveys for England gather evidence and trend data about people's access, understanding and enjoyment of nature, and how it contributes to wellbeing.
Guidance on using natural capital approaches in making decisions about the natural environment.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Register to use a class licence for activities that need specific skill or experience to avoid risk to the conservation or welfare of a protected species.
What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
As a Natural England contractor complete the contractor’s licence form to allow you to download Ordnance Survey mapping data under the PSGA agreement.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
Use this form to request Natural England's advice on planning applications and applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects.
As a Natural England partner or contractor use the work request and licence forms for permission to download digital data to support your work.
Find out which National Nature Reserves have been declared by Natural England as new or changed.
Apply for a licence to take or kill seals in rivers and find out how to report your actions.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Find out how coastal access is being improved, where work is in progress and where new rights of access are now available.
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