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How to host educational access visits safely and within the terms of your Higher Level Stewardship agreement.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle option.
As a local authority or national park authority, find out what responsibilities you have for your LAF.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
How to set up a commons council to manage common land.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland option.
Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access.
Objectives and priorities of each of the 2023 Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund groups.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the organic land management - top fruit option.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the upland livestock exclusion supplement.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the restoration of upland wood pasture and parkland option.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for research, conservation or development projects.
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
Read the agreement holder’s guide for agreements starting on or after 5 January 2023 until 31 December 2023.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2020.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
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