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Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital.
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
This guidance document has been published to help local authorities carry out their duties.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development at the same time.
Find out which premises are approved to Great Britain standards in the compartmentalisation scheme and get their approval numbers.
Complete declaration forms as part of an application for a bat mitigation licence.
You should use this licence to move table eggs from a premises in a free area to an egg processing plant in a protection zone or surveillance zone.
How to keep and breed pigs, and your responsibilities for housing, feeding and looking after them.
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 general licence to sell captive bred live wild birds.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Find out about the licences you need and rules you must follow to import Specified Animal Pathogens into England, Scotland and Wales.
Buying statutory biodiversity credits is a last resort for developers who are unable to use on-site or off-site units to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How to care for animals on farms and in transport in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
How to submit an application, data package and responses for proposed or existing marketing authorisations.
This guide gives an overview of plant health legislation for forestry in England for Forestry Commission staff and contract inspectors working in the sector.
Vets can contact APHA to get expert advice about unusual animal disease or mortality in England and Wales.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
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