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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 conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
How to prepare or review a management plan for a Protected Landscape in England.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
The byelaw for bottom towed fishing gear, including an impact assessment and charts.
Products and chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost if bats are not present.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Natural England's terms and conditions for chargeable discretionary advice services for proposals affecting sites of special scientific interest.
You may need to complete a restoration plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
Get a general licence to sell black-headed gull eggs for human consumption if you're a retailer or restaurateur.
How to apply for a licence from Natural England to release beavers into the wild in England.
Get a general licence to trap stoats to conserve vulnerable wild birds.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Based on the best available evidence MMO have identified bycatch of harbour porpoise in gillnets as a concern that may need to be managed. As such MMO is considering potential management options. It has set out the evidence …
Find out how to appeal if Natural England serves you with a management notice for works on a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
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