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Products and chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost if bats are not present.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
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.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
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 assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Interactive WebApps to support MMO’s assessment and potential management of Stage 4 marine protected areas (MPAs) and guidance to help users make the most of this platform.
How to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
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