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Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
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.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries – and report actions taken und…
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Use this form to report any action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor licence.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
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.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
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.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
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.
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