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Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
When you can bring seal, walrus and sea lion products into Great Britain. How recognised authorities can get approval to export seal products to Great Britain for trade.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
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 …
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