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Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use 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.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under a licence.
How to spot and report bee pests and diseases.
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.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
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