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Guidance for licensed operators to carry out controlled shooting of badgers in the field.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
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.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or to prevent serious damage.
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
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.
Guidance for licensed operators to carry out cage-trapping and dispatch of badgers.
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