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Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
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.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
A list of designated responsible bodies able to enter into conservation covenant agreements with landowners in England.
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.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How to spot and report bee pests and diseases.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
How landowners and occupiers can assess the threat of ragwort on their land and control it.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
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