Biodiversity and ecosystems
Services
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Endangered species: apply for a commercial use certificate
Apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.
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Application to use herbicides in or near water
Use this form if you plan to use herbicides to control weeds in water or on the banks next to a waterbody or watercourse.
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Invasive non-native (alien) species: licence to manage and control them (IAS A02)
Apply for a licence to manage and control certain non-native (alien) species.
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Endangered species: apply for a waiver from paying permit fees
Use this guidance and form to apply for an exemption from CITES fees because of conservation work.
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Landscape Recovery scheme: complaints and reconsiderations
Make a complaint, provide feedback or request a reconsideration of a Landscape Recovery scheme decision.
Guidance and regulation
- Complying with the biodiversity duty
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit
- Biodiversity metric: calculate the biodiversity net gain of a project or development
- Wild birds: protection and licences
- Reporting your biodiversity duty actions
News and communications
- £40 million biodiversity research programme opens for applications
- Pair of unlicensed South East anglers netted for illegal fishing
- Wildflowers seeds for every primary school class in honour of the Coronation
- Ecology benefits from restoration project in Norwich
- Snow leopards, elephants and pangolins to be better protected with funding boost for world’s most endangered animals
Research and statistics
- UK Biodiversity indicators
- England biodiversity indicators
- State of the water environment indicator B3: supporting evidence
- UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR): breed inventory results
- Wild bird populations in the UK
Policy papers and consultations
- Local Nature Recovery Strategies: how to prepare and what to include
- Consultation on Biodiversity Net Gain regulations and implementation
- Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate
- Political Vision: The 10 Point Plan for financing biodiversity
- The Great Britain invasive non-native species strategy
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Results-Based Agri-environment Payment Scheme (RBAPS) pilot study in England
- Environment (Wales) Act 2016 Part 1 Section 6: The Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems
- Cumbria BogLIFE project
- Fish Health Inspectorate: Reports 2018
- Marches Mosses BogLIFE project