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.
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
- Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA)
- Commercial use of endangered species: check if you need a CITES certificate
- Create ponds and lakes
News and communications
- Northern creek network at Lower Otter site nearly complete
- World-leading Environment Act becomes law
- $12 billion donor support to halt and reverse forest loss and protect land rights
- New chalk streams strategy launched to protect ‘England’s rain forests’
- Ambitious project to reverse decades of pollution in Norfolk broad
Research and statistics
- UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR): breed inventory results
- UK Biodiversity indicators
- Natural Flood Management Programme: initial findings
- Invasive non-native species: challenges for the water environment
- Biodiversity: challenges for the water environment
Policy papers and consultations
- Local Nature Recovery Strategies: how to prepare and what to include
- Aarhus convention national implementation report 2021
- Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot: environmental outcomes and benefits
- England Peat Action Plan
- River basin management plans: use of strategic environmental assessment screening
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