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Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Get a general licence to trap stoats to prevent serious damage to vulnerable livestock.
Use Natural England’s advice packages to find out if your activity, proposal or area has a potential impact on MPAs and the species and habitats within them.
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.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
Get a licence to carry out investigations of wildlife and other crime that could affect protected species and their habitats in England.
How to prepare or review a management plan for a Protected Landscape in England.
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 amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
Use this form to report any action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor licence.
How to create a blanket bog restoration plan and what you need to include.
Map of European sites in England and the 500 metre buffer zone around these sites on 31 May 2021.
Find out when and how to appeal if Natural England refuses you consent to carry out an activity on a site of special scientific interest.
Use this general licence to capture and temporarily possess live bats to test for European bat lyssavirus and kill those with the virus.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
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