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What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
Information on what the government is doing to control the risk of bovine tuberculosis (TB) from badgers.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts for agriculture, forestry and drainage purposes and to prevent damage and find out how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or prevent serious damage.
Guidance for licensed operators to carry out controlled shooting of badgers in the field.
Licences for activities affecting badgers, a protected species.
Apply for a licence to take and mark badgers to enable vaccination to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) in cattle.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a badger for survey, research or conservation work, find out about references and how to report your actions.
Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas in 2023.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
Apply for a licence to interfere with a badger sett near a scheduled monument.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
Report any action taken under a licence to interfere with badger setts for forestry or drainage purposes.
Tell Natural England what action you've taken or renew a licence.
Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas during 2022.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
Guidance for licensed operators to carry out cage-trapping and dispatch of badgers.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
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