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Find out about eligibility and requirements for the small wildlife box item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the resurfacing of gateways item.
As an owner or manager of land, understand how to restrict public access for land management, public safety or fire prevention reasons.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments…
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the tree guard (tube and mesh) item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the installation of piped culverts in ditches item.
Guidance on how to meet the requirements for an Environmental Stewardship agreement.
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
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 large wildlife box item.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the supplement for use of individual tree-shelters item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the coppicing bankside trees item.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development at the same time.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
Find out about eligibility and requirements to carry out customised capital works to manage specific sites or species.
Guidance for Environmental Stewardship agreement holders on how to claim an annual or capital payment.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Find out about the aim and requirements for squirrel traps and maintenance.
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