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Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find nature reserves, national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and green spaces
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve (LNR).
The MENE survey provides trend data for how people experience the natural environment in England.
The 439-hectare National Nature Reserve will be a haven for people and a rich variety of species including kingfishers, rare ‘Charnwood spider’ and ancient oaks
English Nature promoted the conservation of wildlife, geology and wild places. It was merged with the Countryside Agency and Rural Development Service to form Natural England in 2006.
Find out more about the reserves, where they are, who manages them and what special features or opportunities they offer.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
Events taking place during National Nature Reserves Week to showcase the benefits that National Nature Reserves bring to nature and people.
Lloyds Banking Group provides £250,000 funding to three nature restoration projects in England through the ‘Projects for Nature online’ platform
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within 5 main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification...
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to find and use the statistics and analysis from the People and Nature Surveys for England.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
A national network of wildlife-rich places to increase and restore nature.
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