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What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
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.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
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.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
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