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How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve (LNR).
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to prevent serious damage.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
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 assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
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