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Did you mean nature's own pest control
Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
Your local council may help you get rid of common pests in your property like mice, wasps and bedbugs with pest control services
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.
What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
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