Site map
Flooding
- Check flood warnings
- 5 day flood risk outlook
- Sign up to receive flood warnings
- Change your details or cancel flood warnings
- Check your flood risk by postcode
- Check your flood risk on a map (Flood Risk Assessment Wales Map)
- What to do before, during and after a flood
- How to prepare your home, business or farm for a flood
- Guidance for caravan and campsites owners and operators
- Development Advice Map
- Managing flood risk
Permits and permissions
- Buy a fishing rod licence
- Check for a permit, licence or exemption (Public Register)
- Waste permitting
- Apply for a waste permit
- Do you need to apply for a permit or register a waste exemption
- Apply for a standard rules permit for waste operations
- Apply for a bespoke permit for a waste operation
- Apply for deployment of a mobile plant permit
- Apply to vary (change) a permit for waste operations
- Apply to transfer a waste permit
- Apply to surrender a waste permit
- Standard rules and risk assessments for waste operations
- Permanent deposit of waste for recovery
- Mining waste
- Register or renew as a waste carrier, broker or dealer
- Deciding if you are a waste carrier, broker or dealer
- Register or renew your waste exemptions
- Understand your waste exemptions for agricultural activities
- Register a waste electrical and electronic equipment exemption (WEEE)
- Guidance on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
- Register or renew as a hazardous waste producer
- Register as a battery producer
- Registering waste exemptions for a linear network
- Guidance on importing and exporting waste
- Guidance for packaging producers
- Guidance on requirements for Release from Radioactive Substances Regulation
- Submit a CL:AIRE Code of Practice declaration
- Apply for a waste permit
- Water discharges and septic tanks
- Register your septic tank or small sewage (package) treatment plant
- Running and maintaining a septic tank or small sewage plant
- What to do if you have been refused a registration for a septic tank or private sewage treatment system
- Discharges to surface water / and groundwater
- Using herbicides
- Private sewage treatment in an area with a public sewer
- Water abstraction and impoundment licences
- Installations
- Environmental permits
- Plan an event, activity or project on our land
- Marine licensing
- Species licensing
- Tree felling and other regulations
- Flood risk activity permits
- Working in protected areas
- Permit applications, consultations and decisions
- Apply for land drainage consent
- Carbon emissions
- Non-nuclear radioactive substance sites
- Medium combustion plant and specified generator activities
- Coast Protection Act 1949 Consenting
Evidence and data
- Maps
- Check river levels, rainfall and sea data
- Browse map of data about the natural environment
- Lle Geo-Portal map browser
- Marine Character Areas
- National Landscape Character Areas (NLCA)
- Bathing water quality map
- Fire severity index
- Water Watch Wales
- Find details of permitted waste sites
- Extent of Semi-Natural Habitat in Wales (Indicator 43)
- Research and reports
- Protected sites baseline assessment 2020
- State of Natural Resources Report (SoNaRR) for Wales 2020
- Reports, evidence and data on flooding
- State of Natural Resources interim report 2019
- The State of Natural Resources report 2016
- Habitat reports
- Invasive non-native species (INNS) reports
- Landscape and geodiversity reports
- Marine reports
- Species reports
- Waste reports
- Water reports
- State of the environment reports
- Biennial reports on reservoir safety
- Forestry research
- Our library and information
- Marine biodiversity collaborative research priorities
- Water environment collaborative research priorities
- Ancient Woodland Inventory
- National Survey for Wales
- Accessing our data
- Analytical Services
Guidance and advice
- Environmental topics
- Water management and quality
- Waste management
- Report fly-tipping
- Disposing of your household waste
- Commercial landlords: protect yourself from waste crime
- Waste duty of care for organisations
- Materials facilities: how to assess, notify, sample and report
- Completing waste transfer notes
- Submit your waste return
- Submit your hazardous waste return
- Completing hazardous waste consignment notes
- How to classify and assess waste
- How to comply with the separate collection requirement for waste
- Meeting the end of waste test
- Land management
- Wildlife and biodiversity
- Coast and marine
- Your neighbourhood
- Energy
- Consultations
- Business sectors
- Forestry
- Fisheries
- Angling byelaws (fishing rules)
- How to practise salmon catch and release
- Disinfecting tackle to control fish disease
- Apply for permission to stock, remove and supply fish
- Fishing with nets and traps
- UK fish protected by law
- Freshwater fisheries management and advice
- Wales Fisheries Forum
- Local Fishery Groups
- Farming
- Marine development
- Planning and development
- Education, learning and skills
Days out
- Places to visit
- North East Wales
- Alwen Reservoir, near Denbigh
- Clocaenog Forest - Bod Petryal, near Ruthin
- Clocaenog Forest - Boncyn Foel Bach, near Ruthin
- Clocaenog Forest - Coed y Fron Wyllt, near Ruthin
- Clocaenog Forest - Pincyn Llys, near Ruthin
- Clocaenog Forest – Pool Park, near Ruthin
- Coed Llangwyfan, near Denbigh
- Coed Moel Famau, near Mold
- Coed Nercwys, near Mold
- North West Wales
- Beddgelert Forest, near Porthmadog
- Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Visitor Centre, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Forest Park - Forest Garden, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Forest Park - Glasdir, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Forest Park - Pont Cae’n y Coed, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Forest Park - Tyddyn Gwladys, near Dolgellau
- Coed y Brenin Forest Park - Ty’n y Groes, near Dolgellau
- Coedydd Aber National Nature Reserve, near Bangor
- Cors Bodeilio National Nature Reserve, Anglesey
- Cwm Idwal National Nature Reserve, near Betws-y-coed
- Gwydir Forest Park - Betws-y-coed
- Gwydir Forest Park - Cae'n y Coed, near Betws-y-coed
- Gwydir Forest Park - Cyffty Mine, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Dolwyddelan, near Betws-y-coed
- Gwydir Forest Park - Hafna, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Llyn Crafnant, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Llyn Geirionydd, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Llyn Sarnau, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Sawbench, near Llanrwst
- Gwydir Forest Park - Ty’n Llwyn, near Betws-y-coed
- Morfa Dyffryn National Nature Reserve, near Barmouth
- Morfa Harlech National Nature Reserve, near Harlech
- Newborough National Nature Reserve and Forest, Anglesey
- Snowdon National Nature Reserve, near Beddgelert
- Mid Wales
- The Arch, near Aberystwyth
- Black Covert Woodland, near Aberystwyth
- Bwlch Nant yr Arian Visitor Centre, near Aberystwyth
- Ceri Forest, near Newtown
- Coed Maenarthur Woodland, near Aberystwyth
- Coed y Bont community woodland, near Tregaron
- Cors Caron National Nature Reserve, near Tregaron
- Cors y Llyn National Nature Reserve, near Builth Wells
- Crychan Forest, near Llandovery
- Cwm Rhaeadr, near Llandovery
- Dyfi Forest - Foel Friog, near Machynlleth
- Dyfi Forest - Nant Gwernol, near Machynlleth
- Dyfi Forest - Tan y Coed, near Machynlleth
- Dyfi National Nature Reserve - Cors Fochno, near Aberystwyth
- Dyfi National Nature Reserve - Ynyslas Visitor Centre, near Aberystwyth
- Dyfnant Forest - Hendre, near Dolgellau
- Dyfnant Forest - Pen y Ffordd, near Dolgellau
- Dyfnant Forest - Pont Llogel, near Dolgellau
- Gogerddan Wood, near Aberystwyth
- Grogwynion, near Aberystwyth
- Hafod Estate, near Aberystwyth
- Hafren Forest, near Llanidloes
- Halfway Forest, near Llandovery
- Irfon Forest (White Bridge), near Llanwrtyd Wells
- Nash Wood, near Presteigne
- Radnor Forest - Fishpools, near Knighton
- Warren Wood, near New Radnor
- South East Wales
- South West Wales
- Our visitor centres
- Map of places to visit
- North East Wales
- Things to do
- Wales Coast Path
- National Trails
- How to get our e-newsletter
- Leaflets for visitors
- The Countryside Code Family
- Recreation and Access policy advice and guidance
About us
- News and events
- Jobs and placements
- Contact us
- Area Statements
- South East Wales Area Statement
- South Central Wales Area Statement
- South West Wales Area Statement
- Mid Wales Area Statement
- North East Wales Area Statement
- North West Wales Area Statement
- Marine Area Statement
- Natural Resources Wales approach to impact assessments of Area Statements
- Sector specific information
- Strategies and plans
- What we do
- Our projects
- Our Chair and Board
- Corporate information
- Equality, diversity and inclusion