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Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Get a general licence to remove abandoned or unsuccessful eggs from wild birds' nests between 1 September and 31 January.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels 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.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
How the Animal and Plant Health Agency and other enforcement bodies can use enforcement and sanctioning powers to secure compliance with illegal ivory dealing.
How your personal information is used when you report dead wild birds.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Find out how to sell wild birds and animals legally and safely, and what licences you need to get.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Get a general licence to sell dead wild red squirrels and pine martens.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
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