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Cambridgeshire launches district level licensing scheme for newt conservation

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Published on: 19 August 2020

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LNB News 19/08/2020

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Issue Date: 19 August 2020

Published Date: 19 August 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England

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Natural England has announced that Cambridgeshire is the latest area to launch a district level licensing scheme, aimed at better protecting the endangered great crested newt species, which has suffered a loss of around 50% of its pond habitat in the 20th century. Great crested newts are protected under European law and it is an offence to capture, kill, injure or disturb them without a licence from Natural England. The new licencing scheme will take a ‘landscape-scale’ approach to regulation, focusing conservation effort into areas where it will create maximum benefit. Under the scheme, developers need only make one application and a one-off payment to join their local, area-wide scheme. The one-off payment covers the creation, restoration, maintenance and monitoring of ponds around the area for 25 years, in locations specially chosen to provide the best habitat and most benefit. Developers who join the scheme will benefit by not having to carry out their own survey or plan and...

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