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How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the stone wall supplement - difficult sites item.
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.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the silt filtration dams or seepage barriers item.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the parkland tree guard - welded steel item.
Your responsibilities when you hold a camping or caravanning exemption certificate.
Find out about Natural England’s proposal to designate an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the relocation of sheep pens only item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the relocation of sheep dips and pens item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the moorland mapping item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the grip blocking drainage channels item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the creation of dead wood habitat on trees item.
Find out about eligibility requirements for beaver protection infrastructure item
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the installation of livestock drinking troughs (in draining pens for freshly dipped sheep) item.
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