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Sets the governance framework for training and continuous professional development under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA).
You may need to complete a wildfire management plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
How to apply for a several order or a regulating order.
List of the fish names (commercial designations) accepted at the point of retail in the United Kingdom.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
Guidance for competent authorities applying to Defra for market access to export animals and animal products to Great Britain, or to amend existing trading conditions.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
When and how to test for salmonella if you breed chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).
Register for a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies and find out how to report your actions.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
How to get a licence to keep animals for exhibition, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
List of words and phrases that will cause a veterinary product to be medicinal by presentation either through use or contextual use.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
The systematic survey of the UK’s coastal waters
Wild animals cannot be exhibited or used in a performance as part of a travelling circus in England.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
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