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How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
How the rules are changing to extend eligible Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements from 2025 and what you need to do.
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.
Get a licence to possess and transport dead specimens of certain animals for scientific or educational purposes.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the brick, stone or concrete sluice item.
How to create a landscape sensitivity assessment to inform decisions on the planning and management of land use change which influence spatial planning.
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.
This inshore marine conservation zone (MCZ) was designated on 21 November 2013. Another feature was added to this site on 31 May 2019.
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.
Find out the features and issues that have been identified as priorities for funding in this area.
Find out about who manages, maintains and improves the trails and how changes to the routes are made.
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.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the timber sluice item.
Find out about Natural England's proposals to improve coastal access in Hampshire and West Sussex.
Find out about Natural England's proposals to improve coastal access in Cumbria.
Find out about Natural England's proposals to improve coastal access in Essex and Suffolk.
See where the National Park boundary has been extended under the Lake District National Park (Designation) (Variation) Confirmation Order 2015.
Find out about a change to the Kingston Great Common National Nature Reserve in Hampshire.
Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access.
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