Environmental management – collection

Class licences for wildlife management

Register to use a class licence for activities that need specific skill or experience to avoid risk to the conservation or welfare of a protected species.

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If you plan to act under the authority of a class licence you:

• must be registered to use most class licences
• need to apply to be registered for each licence you use
• remain eligible to use the licence(s) for as long as you remain registered
• meet the recording and reporting requirement for each licence

You should use a general licence for activities that have a lower risk for conservation or the welfare of a protected species.

For further information see Wildlife licences: when you need to apply.

Class licences for 2016

1. Badgers: licence for internal drainage boards to interfere with setts for drainage operations

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

2. Badgers: licence for the Forestry Commission to interfere with setts for forestry operations

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

3. Barn owls: licence to survey them to guide future development work

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

4. Bats: survey class licence for volunteer bat roost visitors (level 1)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

5. Bats: survey class licence for volunteer bat roost visitors (level 2)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

6. Bats: survey or research licence (level 1)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

7. Bats: survey or research licence (level 2)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

8. Bats: survey or research licence (level 3)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

9. Bats: survey or research licence (level 4)

   • 1 January 2016
   • Form

10. Birds: licence to catch them on food premises

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

11. Birds: licence to kill or take them for air safety purposes

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

12. Bumblebees: licence for emergency release of non-native species for pollination and research

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

13. Bumblebees: licence to release non-native species in commercial premises for research

    • 3 May 2016
    • Form

14. Edible dormice: licence to trap them

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

15. Great crested newts: survey or research licence (level 1)

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

16. Great crested newts: survey or research licence (level 2)

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

17. Hazel dormice: survey or research licence (level 1)

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

18. Hazel dormice: survey or research licence (level 2)

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

19. Hen harriers: licence to feed them on grouse moors

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

20. Licence to possess plants and animals for scientific purposes

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

21. Licence to sell animal specimens taken before October 1981

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

22. Little whirlpool ramshorn snails: licence for ditch maintenance

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

23. Otters: licence to capture and transport those trapped in fisheries to prevent damage

    • 26 September 2016
    • Form

24. Water voles: licence to displace them for development projects

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

25. Water voles: licence to displace them for work on flood defences, water courses or drainage systems

    • 23 March 2016
    • Form

26. White-clawed crayfish: licence to catch them to carry out maintenance

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

27. White-clawed crayfish: survey or research licence

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

28. Wild animals: licence for individuals to possess specimens

    • 1 January 2016
    • Form

• Published: 1 January 2015
• Updated: 1 January 2016

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• 1 January 2016 12:00am: Page updated for new licences issued on 1 January 2016.
• 1 January 2015 12:00am: First published.

• From: Natural England
• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs