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Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
A list of designated responsible bodies able to enter into conservation covenant agreements with landowners in England.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
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.
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.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
When you can get a licence to catch salmon or sea trout by net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under this licence.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
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.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
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