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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the training to control and manage American mink item.
Public advice on flood recovery and mental health impacts.
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.
The document provides generic guidelines for the assessment and management of environmental risks.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
A collection of digital assets for download and use in promoting heat network zoning within organisations or networks.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Find out what landscape character assessments are and how they can be used.
Invited applicants can apply for a grant to add a veranda onto, or to upgrade or replace existing laying hen or pullet housing to improve animal health and welfare. Applications closed at 11.59pm on 28 April 2026.
Read the Forestry Commission's guides on how best to manage dog walkers on your woodland. This includes managing dog fouling and protecting wildlife from dogs.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for metal decontamination installations.
This guidance explains how to consider the historic environment when developing and implementing forestry projects in England.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live or germinal products of invertebrates, amphibians or reptiles to Great Britain.
Guidance on labelling, contaminants and what to look out for when importing products which come from animals.
Advice on safe levels of arsenic in rice and rice milk.
Techniques that analysts, consultants and academics can use to assess the effect of air pollution on human health and the environment.
Apply for capital item PA3 as a one-off payment to create a 10-year woodland management plan.
Guidance on managing the public health consequences of TB in cattle and other animals.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
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