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How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
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.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Use this form to report any action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor licence.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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.
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.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
How to notify the Marine Management Organisation that you are carrying out a seismic or geophysical survey.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Natural England’s strategic licence trial for work that affects water voles in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Thurrock or Southend-on-Sea is now closed.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
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.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
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