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Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Increase flood resilience with Natural Flood Management
The MENE survey provides trend data for how people experience the natural environment in England.
Natural England and Clinton Devon Estates announce extension to Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve to promote natural connections and biodiversity.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
Natural colonisation is the process by which trees colonise new ground from existing local sources. This can happen through seed which has been dispersed by birds, mammals, wind or gravity, or by vegetative colonisation where new growth sprouts from the...
Three board member terms extended
Find out how to become a volunteer to support nature conservation where you live or work.
Find out more about the reserves, where they are, who manages them and what special features or opportunities they offer.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
How to find and use the statistics and analysis from the People and Nature Surveys for England.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
How the rules are changing to extend eligible Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements from 2024 for 4 years, and what you need to do.
On 13 September 2023, the House of Lords voted against government proposals intended to unlock 100,000 homes between now and 2030 whilst protecting and improving the environment.
How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.
Information you need for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Devon’s Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve to extended by nearly 90 hectares, the equivalent of 128 football pitches, to encompass a unique wetland
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).
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