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Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments…
Register to use a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies – and report actions taken under this licence.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How landowners and occupiers can assess the threat of ragwort on their land and control it.
Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.
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.
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.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under this licence.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
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.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
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