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How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
How to spot and report bee pests and diseases.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve (LNR).
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.
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.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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.
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
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.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
Buying statutory biodiversity credits is a last resort for developers who are unable to use on-site or off-site units to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
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