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Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
When you can bring seal, walrus and sea lion products into Great Britain. How recognised authorities can get approval to export seal products to Great Britain for trade.
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.
Get a general licence to remove abandoned or unsuccessful eggs from wild birds' nests between 1 September and 31 January.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
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.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
How the Animal and Plant Health Agency and other enforcement bodies can use enforcement and sanctioning powers to secure compliance with illegal ivory dealing.
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.
Get a general licence to sell captive bred live wild birds.
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