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How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
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.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
The Species Recovery Programme has launched a new opportunity calling for ideas to support threatened species.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
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