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A best practice guide to assist with the design and implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes.
Get a licence to possess and transport dead specimens of certain animals for scientific or educational purposes.
How to apply for a licence to release Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures in England.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
This enforcement policy sets out the general principles and approach taken by the VMD.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for SQP retailers’ premises inspections.
How to get a licence to keep animals for exhibition, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
Vets can sign up to get text or email alerts from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for animal health threats for livestock and small animals.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
How to apply for a licence from Natural England to release beavers into the wild in England.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
Based on the best available evidence MMO have identified bycatch of harbour porpoise in gillnets as a concern that may need to be managed. As such MMO is considering potential management options. It has set out the evidence …
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
Standard rules for channel habitat structures made of natural materials occupying up to 100 metres of a main river.
How the Animals in Science Regulation Unit sets and upholds standards and compliance at all establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act.
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