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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Landscape Recovery scheme: complaints and reconsiderations
Make a complaint, provide feedback or request a reconsideration of a Landscape Recovery scheme decision.
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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.
Guidance and regulation
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit
- Biodiversity metric: calculate the biodiversity net gain of a project or development
- Biodiverse Landscapes Fund: how to apply
- Wild birds: protection and licences
- Commercial use of endangered species: check if you need a CITES certificate
News and communications
- Extreme heat: Environment Agency calls on public to help protect fish
- Bees’ Needs Week buzzes into action
- Environment Agency report sets out urgent need to work with nature
- Norfolk man fined after fishing illegally during close season
- G7 conference one year on: 26 ways Cornwall has been made greener
Research and statistics
- River habitat survey guidance manual
- England biodiversity indicators
- Working with nature
- Population trends for UK bat species (2022 publication; includes dates up to 2021)
- UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR): breed inventory results
Policy papers and consultations
- Biodiverse Landscapes Fund
- Pollinator Action Plan 2021 to 2024
- Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme
- The Great Britain invasive non-native species strategy
- Cruiser SB emergency registration report
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