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Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds 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 by various means to preserve public health or safety.
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.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
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 water voles on or near a proposed development site.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
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.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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