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Read about what to expect and how you can get ready to apply when Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) opens in 2025.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
Find out which licence and fuel you need for agricultural vehicles and which tax and operator's licence exemptions might apply to you.
Find out the payment rate for Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) items from 1 January 2025.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the fencing item.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep netting item.
The MacKay Carbon Calculator provides a model of the UK energy system that allows you to explore pathways to decarbonisation, including net zero by 2050.
McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.
Access times for Defence Training Estate Lulworth and Tynham Village, Dorset.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Find woodland agreements, felling licences and other designations or features on any chosen area of land in England.
The minimum standards that zoos are expected to meet.
What you need to do to buy, sell or hire out items made of or containing ivory in the UK.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
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