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How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
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…
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
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.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation 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.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
How to spot and report bee pests and diseases.
Buying statutory biodiversity credits is a last resort for developers who are unable to use on-site or off-site units to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
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.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
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