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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the silt filtration dams or seepage barriers item.
Find out about extensions for CS Mid Tier agreements due to end in December 2025.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
Find out about eligibility requirements for beaver protection infrastructure item
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Find out what you should include in a heritage management plan, who to consult and the approval process for conditionally exempt properties.
Find out how Natural England handles your personal data.
Terms and conditions which form part of the contract between Natural England and its suppliers for purchases of goods or services (or both).
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the use monitoring equipment to manage invasive species item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the Automatic slurry scraper option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for this option.
Contact details for Local Nature Partnerships in England.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
How to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
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