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How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
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.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
The Species Recovery Programme has launched a new opportunity calling for ideas to support threatened species.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
Check if there are restrictions on importing a CITES specimen into Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
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.
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