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Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
As a local authority or local planning authority, when to publish your biodiversity report and what to include.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
Find out what happens when you report a notifiable animal disease and how to get support.
A biodiversity gain plan shows how a development will achieve biodiversity net gain.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Check the air, sea and rail carriers registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency to transport assistance dogs with their owners.
List of organisations that issue horse passports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
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.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
When your pet must go in quarantine, how to book a pet carrier and quarantine premises, and how to get your pet released from quarantine.
Code of recommendations and guidance for laying hens, meat chickens, ducks, turkeys and other birds bred on farms.
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