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Environmental management

Wildlife and habitat conservation

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Natural England, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Animal and Plant Health Agency
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Department for International Development, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Marine Management Organisation, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), Forestry Commission, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (Northern Ireland), Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Forestry England, Health and Safety Executive, Highways England, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Ministry of Defence, Natural Resources Wales, and Welsh Government
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Report incidents

  1. Report an environmental incident
  2. Understand marine wildlife licences and report an incident
  3. Wildlife crime and how to report it
  4. Report a dead or injured animal
  5. Report a stranded whale or dolphin

Birds

  1. Bird licences
  2. Geese: control populations of problem birds under licence
  3. Hen harriers: tracking programme update
  4. Wild birds: prevent damage to your land, farm, fishery or business
  5. Wild birds: protection and licences
  6. Wild birds: remove them from food premises using nets or traps
  7. Wild birds: surveys and mitigation for development projects

Fish and shellfish

  1. Freshwater and migratory fish licences
  2. Freshwater and migratory fish: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  3. Licence for an individual to protect their fishery from fish-eating birds (A06 and A07)
  4. Permission to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon and sea trout
  5. Controls of fish and shellfish diseases in England and Wales
  6. Return tagged fish and shellfish

Invertebrates

  1. Freshwater pearl mussel: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  2. Guidance on habitat for white-clawed crayfish
  3. Invertebrate licences: European protected species
  4. Invertebrates: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  5. Invertebrates: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  6. Permission to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon and sea trout
  7. White-clawed crayfish licences
  8. White-clawed crayfish: surveys and mitigation for development projects

Mammals

  1. Badger licences
  2. Badgers: protection and licences
  3. Badgers: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  4. Bat licences
  5. Bat roosts: use of chemical pest control products and timber treatments in or near them
  6. Bats: protection and licences
  7. Bats: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  8. Deer: how to protect your property from damage
  9. Deer licences
  10. Dormice licences
  11. Hazel dormice: protection and licences
  12. Hazel or common dormice: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  13. Foxes, moles and mink: how to protect your property from damage
  14. Mammals: licence to kill, take or disturb for health and safety (A05 and LR05)
  15. Mink, coypu, muskrat and grey squirrels: apply for a licence to keep them (A04 and LR04)
  16. Otter licences
  17. Otters: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  18. Rabbits: how to control numbers
  19. Seals: licence to kill or take them in rivers (A17 and LR17)
  20. Water vole licences
  21. Water voles: surveys and mitigation for development projects

Reptiles and amphibians

  1. Great crested newt licences
  2. Great crested newts: protection and licences
  3. Great crested newts: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  4. Natterjack toad licences
  5. Natterjack toads: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  6. Reptile licences
  7. Reptiles: surveys and mitigation for development projects

Other wildlife licensing

  1. Class licences for wildlife management
  2. European protected species: apply for a licence to possess them (A37 and LR37)
  3. European protected species: apply for a mitigation licence
  4. General licences for wildlife management
  5. Keeping wild birds or animals
  6. Managing wildlife on your land
  7. Non-native species: apply for a licence to release them (A03 and LR03)
  8. Protected species licences: register to apply for and manage licences online
  9. Protected species: when to apply for a licence to survey, film or photograph them
  10. Protected species licences for survey, research or conservation work (A29 and A30)
  11. Wildlife licences: when you need to apply

Plants

  1. Application to use herbicides in or near water
  2. Stop invasive non-native plants from spreading
  3. Plant licences
  4. Plants: surveys and mitigation for development projects
  5. Prevent Japanese knotweed from spreading
  6. Wild plants: sell them legally

Habitat conservation

  1. Find protected areas of countryside
  2. Hoveton Wetlands restoration project
  3. Humberhead Peatlands restoration LIFE+ project
  4. Improvement programme for England’s Natura 2000 sites (IPENS)
  5. Local nature reserves: setting up and management
  6. Marches Mosses BogLIFE project
  7. Nature Improvement Areas: improved ecological networks
  8. River habitat survey guidance manual
  9. Special Nature Conservation Orders: consent and 'stop notices'
  10. Visit national parks, nature reserves and green spaces

Volunteering

  1. Become a volunteer bat roost visitor
  2. Volunteering with Natural England: how to get involved
  3. Volunteering with Natural England: support directory

Other

  1. Biodiversity duty: public authority duty to have regard to conserving biodiversity
  2. Darwin Initiative: funding schemes and how to apply
  3. Enforcement laws: advice on protecting the natural environment in England
  4. How external funding is helping Natural England's work
  5. Hunting and shooting wildlife
  6. Licence to sell protected plants and animals (A38 and LR38)
  7. Manage and protect woodland wildlife
  8. Marine species: protection

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