Guidance and regulation

How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 27 February 2024

What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 18 May 2015

When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 26 July 2023

How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 12 February 2024

Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 February 2024

How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 13 March 2024

Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 25 October 2023

What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 29 March 2015

Annual confirmed sightings of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) in the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 25 April 2024

What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 September 2022

What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 29 March 2015

How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 6 February 2024

How to assess a planning application when there are bats on or near a proposed development site.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 14 January 2022

Apply to join a district level licensing scheme to develop land that may affect great crested newts and supply any survey data you collect.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 11 December 2023

A biodiversity gain plan shows how a development will achieve biodiversity net gain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 26 March 2024

How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 26 July 2022

What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 29 March 2015

What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 20 September 2022

How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 13 December 2022

How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 2 February 2022