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How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to prevent serious damage.
What you need to do as a developer to meet biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage game birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitat.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
How to report farm animal welfare concerns to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in England.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
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