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How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
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