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Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Guidance for Environmental Stewardship agreement holders on how to claim an annual or capital payment.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the restoration of large water bodies item.
Get a general licence to remove abandoned or unsuccessful eggs from wild birds' nests between 1 September and 31 January.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the self supporting covers for slurry stores item.
Setting out how regulatory bodies can co-ordinate the separate processes for coastal development consents in England.
A list of species or subspecies from the EC Habitats Directive.
Register for a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies and find out how to report your actions.
Get a licence to possess and transport dead specimens of certain animals for scientific or educational purposes.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Use this form between 1 April and 30 September to complain about an infestation of injurious weeds where there is a risk those weeds will spread to your land.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the moorland mapping item.
Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access.
Find out where work is underway to improve coastal access in Hampshire and West Sussex.
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
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