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Check if you need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts 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.
How to assess a planning application when there are bats on or near a proposed development site.
Use this service to find out the rules, and the pest or disease risks for importing plants, plant products or seeds to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for commercial use.
What to include in a habitat management and monitoring plan (HMMP) to improve biodiversity for the long term. 
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
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 developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
The prices of statutory biodiversity credits from the date biodiversity net gain (BNG) becomes mandatory.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
Information for developers and local planning authorities explaining statutory biodiversity credits, and the process of buying them.
Find out what to do and how much it costs to register a biodiversity gain site.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.
Apply to join the Natural England great crested newt district level licensing scheme as a developer, ecologist or landowner.
How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds by various means to preserve public health or safety.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
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