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Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
How to carry out and use landscape and seascape character assessments.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Find out about the SFI actions for hedgerows, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
Competent authorities must help to protect wild bird habitats on land and at sea, and avoid pollution to protect wild bird populations.
Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
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