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How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Licences for activities affecting water voles.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect water voles. Find out if you need to pay for the licence and how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Natural England is seeking views on the proposal to issue a new class licence to permanently move water voles for development purposes (licence CL31).
A hundred water voles move into Shropshire.
This document sets out the ecological baseline data associated with otter and water voles.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Ecologists found themselves a little adrift when trying to detect any signs of the elusive water vole living near the A5 – until they came up with an innovative idea.
Work due to start 9 March to improve water vole habitat on the Stort Navigation in Bishops Stortford.
20 new nature projects across the country will receive funding to create and restore critical habitat areas equivalent in total to the size of York
£11.5m extra funding announced to boost tree planting, habitat restoration and flood management across England through the Water Environment Improvement Fund.
Introduction of water voles to Cornwall sees them return to every county in England for the first time since 1989.
A colony of water voles moved from Salisbury to Ringwood has just had a population boom with 50 new males and females moving in to make the population viable.
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