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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.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
How to notify the Marine Management Organisation that you are carrying out a seismic or geophysical survey.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under this licence.
Get a licence to carry out investigations of wildlife and other crime that could affect protected species and their habitats in England.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
How to apply for a licence to release Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures in England.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
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