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How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Get information about biodiversity gain sites and any off-site gains allocated to developments.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Use this service to register an ivory item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are bats on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what to do and how much it costs to register a biodiversity gain site.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
A biodiversity gain plan shows how a development will achieve biodiversity net gain.
Apply to join a district level licensing scheme to develop land that may affect great crested newts and supply any survey data you collect.
How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitat.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.
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