Biodiversity and ecosystems
Services
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Environmental permit: pre-application advice form including heritage and nature conservation screening
Forms for requesting Environment Agency pre-application advice or a heritage and nature conservation screen. Select the correct form according to permit type.
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Endangered species: apply for a commercial use certificate
Form to 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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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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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.
Guidance and regulation
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit
- Wild birds: protection and licences
- Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA)
- Commercial use of endangered species: check if you need a CITES certificate
- Find a specific tree pest or disease
News and communications
- Upper Tamar rivers to benefit from fishery and habitat improvements
- Environmental arts project comes to the Marches Mosses
- New chair to lead task force on sustainable farming of peatlands
- Neonicotinoid product as seed treatment for sugar beet: emergency authorisation application
- Somerset rivers stocked with fish in run-up to Christmas
Research and statistics
- UK breeds at risk from exotic animal disease outbreaks
- UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR): breed inventory results
- Wild bird populations in England
- ENV08 - Wild bird populations in England
- Wild bird populations in the UK
Policy papers and consultations
- Aarhus convention national implementation report 2021
- Safeguarding the environment in British Overseas Territories: call for evidence
- Biodiversity net gain: updating planning requirements
- Natural Capital Committee’s seventh annual report: government response
- Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund: List of projects
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project
- 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