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What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
When and how to measure a habitat or development’s impact on biodiversity.
The Department for Education's (DfE) sustainability leadership and climate action plans initiative.
Find woodland agreements, felling licences and other designations or features on any chosen area of land in England.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Information about the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to get a flock or herd mark for livestock (including those kept as pets) and keep your registered details up to date.
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.
The Forestry Commission controls tree felling by issuing felling licences. Find out when you need to apply.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
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