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Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
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 interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects.
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.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on special areas of conservation and within their 500m buffer zones.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
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