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A list of commodity codes that fall under the ban on dealing in ivory.
You may need to complete a restoration plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2019.
How your personal information is used when you submit a gamebird licence application.
How Defra will use your personal information when you submit a nomination for a Bees' Needs Champion Award.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2002.
Get a general licence to temporarily possess and transport dead bats for testing as part of the passive surveillance for bat rabies project.
Get a general licence to show certain species of captive bred birds in competition.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
How to identify if Eurasian beavers are on your land.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in November 2016.
Use this general licence to capture and temporarily possess live bats to test for European bat lyssavirus and kill those with the virus.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Use this general licence to rear chicks from the incubated eggs of captive-bred schedule 4 birds for a limited period.
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