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Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Get a general licence to trap stoats to conserve vulnerable wild birds.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
Check if a CITES item that you want to import is listed as having an import suspension due to its trade being considered unsustainable.
Use this form to report any action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor licence.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
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.
How to apply for a licence to release Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures in England.
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.
Use this general licence to capture and temporarily possess live bats to test for European bat lyssavirus and kill those with the virus.
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