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Find out where work is underway to improve coastal access in Essex and Suffolk.
Find out where work is underway to improve coastal access on the Isle of Wight.
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.
Read an example heritage management plan and get detailed guidance on how to prepare one for conditional exemption.
Find out about the merger and extension of 6 existing sites into one NNR with a new name.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
Apply for a licence to take and mark badgers to enable vaccination to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) in cattle.
How to set up a commons council to manage common land.
Find out about the support you get to carry out a volunteer role safely and effectively.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the construction of water penning structures item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the pasture pumps and associated pipework item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the relocation of sheep pens only item.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
Find out where work is underway to improve coastal access in East Sussex.
Find out where work is underway to improve coastal access in Suffolk.
Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at East of Start Point, in the South West of England.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Find out what seascape character assessments are and how they can be used.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Overview for people who want to apply to make a change to the registers of common land or the registers of town and village greens.
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