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Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on special areas of conservation and within their 500m buffer zones.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
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.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
How to apply for a licence to release Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures in England.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Natural England's terms and conditions for chargeable discretionary advice services for proposals affecting sites of special scientific interest.
You may need to complete a restoration plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Based on the best available evidence MMO have identified bycatch of harbour porpoise in gillnets as a concern that may need to be managed. As such MMO is considering potential management options. It has set out the evidence …
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register for a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies and find out how to report your actions.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Use Natural England’s advice packages to find out if your activity, proposal or area has a potential impact on MPAs and the species and habitats within them.
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