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Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.
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.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
How to manage game birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
This guidance only applies to movements of bluetongue susceptible animals. Non-susceptible animals may attend shows as normal.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Guidelines and guidance for vets, farmers and animal keepers on the responsible use of antimicrobials.
How local authorities must regulate, inspect and license zoos and circuses in their areas.
This guide gives an overview of plant health legislation for forestry in England for Forestry Commission staff and contract inspectors working in the sector.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
This enforcement policy sets out the general principles and approach taken by the VMD.
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