Increase nesting habitats for birds Retain all standing deadwood unless it presents a safety hazard
Maintain (or Increase) the area of rough grassland on farms
Hedgerows are protected and enhanced Hedgerows are not trimmed during the bird nesting season
Allow saplings to grow into hedgerow trees at intervals (e.g. 4 trees randomly spaced over 200 m) where this fits in with the local landscape character
Hedges should have a mixture of heights and widths
Hedges should be maintained to a height which is customary to the local landscape (but no less than 1.5 m)
Do not trim hedges more than once every two or three years
Avoid cutting all hedges on a farm in the same year
Remove hedgerows
Hedgerows are not removed (without permission)
Habitats are not damaged by cultivation Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment
Hedgerows are trimmed more often than every two or three years
Create skylark plots
Create beetle banks
Maintain (or increase) the area of unimproved grassland on farms
Maintain rush pastures
Field boundary trees are protected and maintained
In-field ponds are protected and maintained
Wet ditches are protected and maintained Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment
Do not cut ditch banks more than once every two or three years
Only use mechanical means (do not use chemicals) to clean your ditches or trim your bank
Ditches are not moved or re-profiled
Ditches are not cleared during the bird nesting season
Woodlands are protected and maintained Livestock are excluded from woodland
Do not supplementary feed or locate water troughs and mineral licks in such a way as to cause poaching on woodland
Create a buffer strip between cultivations and the surrounding environment
Watercourses are protected and maintained
Moorland is protected and maintained
Protect ancient trees in arable fields Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees
Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees
Protect ancient trees in intensively-managed grass fields Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees
Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees
Do not carry out supplementary feeding of stock under the canopy of in-field trees
Create grassy habitat in corners of arable fields
Take field corners out of management in grassland fields