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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.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Get a licence to own dead species protected under annex 4 of the Habitats Directive for scientific or educational purposes.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
How to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Complete declaration forms as part of an application for a bat mitigation licence.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
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.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
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