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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 temporary deer fencing item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the grip blocking drainage channels item.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Information about the scheme to restore English peatlands and how to apply for funding.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Find out what landscape character assessments are and how they can be used.
Find out about eligibility requirements for beaver protection infrastructure item
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the ditch, dyke and rhine creation item.
How the rules are changing to extend eligible Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements from 2025 and what you need to do.
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
How to join or contact a Local Access Forum in England.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the brick, stone or concrete sluice item.
Get a licence to own dead species protected under annex 4 of the Habitats Directive for scientific or educational purposes.
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 a new National Nature Reserve (NNR) in West Yorkshire
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
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