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How to check if an ivory item you're buying or hiring has been registered or certified as exempt, and what you need to do as a new owner.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
How to apply for a licence from Natural England to release beavers into the wild in England.
A list of designated responsible bodies able to enter into conservation covenant agreements with landowners in England.
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