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Interactive WebApps to support MMO’s assessment and potential management of Stage 4 marine protected areas (MPAs) and guidance to help users make the most of this platform.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
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.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
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.
Check if a CITES item that you want to import is listed as having an import suspension due to its trade being considered unsustainable.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries – and report actions taken und…
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
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 capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
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