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Services

  1. Environmental permit: pre-application advice form including nature and heritage conservation screening

    Use this form to get help from the Environment Agency to complete your environmental permit application and if you need a heritage and nature conservation screen.

  2. Endangered species: apply for a commercial use certificate

    Form and guidance to apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.

  3. 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.

  4. Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund: forms, templates and guidance

    Forms, templates and guidance for projects funded by the Challenge Fund, including annual report templates.

  5. 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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Guidance and regulation

  1. Endangered species: imports and exports
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  2. Wild birds: protection and licences
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
  3. Identify a tree pest or disease: overview
    • Detailed guide
    • Forestry Commission and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  4. Darwin Initiative: applying for main project funding
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Department for International Development
  5. Find a specific tree pest or disease
    • Detailed guide
    • Forestry Commission
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News and communications

Press release

Have you caught a Pacific pink salmon in England?

Environment Agency

  1. Removing an invasive species to protect an Essex riverbank
    • Environment Agency
    • Press release
  2. Work to clear surface weed on the River Colne
    • Environment Agency
    • Press release
  3. Change to the VMD email address: Now live
    • Veterinary Medicines Directorate
    • News story
  4. New studies will help drive protections for beetles
    • Natural England
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Natural Capital Committee: natural capital terminology
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
  2. Northern Ireland environmental statistics report 2019
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  3. England Natural Environment Indicators
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
  4. Natural Capital Committee advice to government on net environmental gain
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
  5. Natural Capital Committee advice on marine management
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Biodiversity net gain: updating planning requirements
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 10 February 2019
  2. Safeguarding the environment in British Overseas Territories: call for evidence
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 26 July 2019
  3. Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund: List of projects
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  4. Natural Capital Committee’s sixth annual report: government response
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  5. National pollinator strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Cumbria BogLIFE project
    • Natural England
    • Corporate report
  2. Environment Agency annual fisheries reports
    • Environment Agency
    • Corporate report
  3. Fish Health Inspectorate: Reports 2018
    • Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
    • Transparency
  4. Marches Mosses BogLIFE project
    • Natural England
    • Corporate report
  5. Results-Based Agri-environment Payment Scheme (RBAPS) pilot study in England
    • Natural England
    • Corporate report
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