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What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitat.
Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to preserve public health or safety.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments…
Apply to control wild birds for air safety, conservation, public health and safety or to prevent disease or agricultural damage.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
How to assess planning proposals that may affect great crested newts if the developer applies to use the Natural England district level licensing (DLL) scheme.
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