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How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
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.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Check if a CITES item that you want to import is listed as having an import suspension due to its trade being considered unsustainable.
Information for landowners about how Natural England investigates reports of death or injury to wildlife or pets where pesticides may be involved.
Find out what you can do to stop deer causing damage to your property.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
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.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Get a general licence to keep birds in show cages that don't meet size requirements.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
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.
Get a general licence to kill or take ruddy ducks, or damage or destroy their nests and eggs.
Guidance on how organisations can carry out conformity assessments against the British Standards Institution (BSI) Nature Investment Standards.
Use this general licence to capture and temporarily possess live bats to test for European bat lyssavirus and kill those with the virus.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
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