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You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Register to use a licence to displace water voles to allow Internal Drainage Boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report actions taken under this licence.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
When you can get permission to catch eel or elver by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
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.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
How to spot and report bee pests and diseases.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
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.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries – and report actions taken und…
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.
How landowners and occupiers can assess the threat of ragwort on their land and control it.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
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