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Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) contact details for private vets, Official Veterinarians, and others in an official capacity.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
How to care for animals on farms and in transport in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you’re an egg producer, and what happens if a laying flock tests positive.
List of approved blood testing laboratories to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.
If you’re responsible for a farm animal you must make sure that you care for it properly.
Current quota catch limits for the 10 metres and under pool including details on 2 and 3 monthly limits on stocks
Natural England's terms and conditions for buying statutory biodiversity credits.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
What pet owners need to do if their animal has suspected or confirmed bovine TB.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development at the same time.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
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