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Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
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.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
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