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Reporting your biodiversity duty actions
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Explains to local authorities when to publish the biodiversity report and what to include. Covers: who must publish a report; when to publish the report; what to include in the report; example report structure; biodiversity net gain information; and optional information.
Document History
Last updated: 17 September 2025 - Made small changes to make the guidance easier to follow for local authorities and local planning authorities reporting on biodiversity actions. Also added information about the types of biodiversity net gain data that local planning authorities can include in their reports. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/reporting-your-biodiversity-duty-actions and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 17 May 2023.
Publisher Information
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK Government department. They are committed to tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and work to secure a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment. This work has formerly been carried out by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of the Environment.
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