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Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts for agriculture, forestry and drainage purposes and to prevent damage and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to interfere with a badger sett near a scheduled monument.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or prevent serious damage.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
Get a licence to carry out investigations of wildlife and other crime that could affect protected species and their habitats in England.
The UK condemns Russia’s sustained attempts at political interference in the UK and globally.
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.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
Common causes of artificial light nuisance, lights that are exempt and how councils can assess light.
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