Environmental management
Wildlife and habitat conservation: detailed information
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Birds
- Bird licences
- Geese: control populations of problem birds under licence
- Hen harriers: tracking programme update
- Wild birds: prevent damage to your land, farm, fishery or business
- Wild birds: protection and licences
- Wild birds: remove them from food premises using nets or traps
- Wild birds: surveys and mitigation for development projects
Fish and shellfish
- Freshwater and migratory fish licences
- Freshwater and migratory fish: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Licence for an individual to protect their fishery from fish-eating birds (A06 and A07)
- Permission to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon and sea trout
- Controls of fish and shellfish diseases in England and Wales
- Return tagged fish and shellfish
Invertebrates
- Freshwater pearl mussel: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Guidance on habitat for white-clawed crayfish
- Invertebrate licences: European protected species
- Invertebrates: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Invertebrates: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Permission to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon and sea trout
- White-clawed crayfish licences
- White-clawed crayfish: surveys and mitigation for development projects
Mammals
- Badgers: protection and licences
- Badgers: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Bat licences
- Bat roosts: use of chemical pest control products and timber treatments in or near them
- Bats: protection and licences
- Bats: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Deer: how to protect your property from damage
- Deer licences
- Dormice licences
- Hazel dormice: protection and licences
- Hazel or common dormice: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Mammals: licence to kill, take or disturb for health and safety (A05 and LR05)
- Mink, coypu and muskrat: apply for a licence to keep them (A04 and LR04)
- Otter licences
- Otters: surveys and mitigation for development projects
- Rabbits: how to control numbers
- Seals: licence to kill or take them in rivers (A17 and LR17)
- Water vole licences
- Water voles: surveys and mitigation for development projects
Reptiles and amphibians
Other wildlife licensing
- Class licences for wildlife management
- European protected species: apply for a licence to possess them (A37 and LR37)
- European protected species: apply for a mitigation licence (A12)
- General licences for wildlife management
- Keeping wild birds or animals
- Managing wildlife on your land
- Non-native (alien) species: apply for a licence to release them (A03 and LR03)
- Protected species licences: register to apply for and manage licences online
- Protected species: when to apply for a licence to survey, film or photograph them
- Protected species licence for science, education or conservation (A29)
- Wildlife licences: when you need to apply
Plants
Habitat conservation
- Find protected areas of countryside
- Hoveton Wetlands restoration project
- Humberhead Peatlands restoration LIFE+ project
- Improvement programme for England’s Natura 2000 sites (IPENS)
- Local nature reserves: setting up and management
- Marches Mosses BogLIFE project
- Nature Improvement Areas: improved ecological networks
- River habitat survey guidance manual
- Special Nature Conservation Orders: consent and 'stop notices'
- Visit national parks, nature reserves and green spaces
Volunteering
Other
- Biodiversity duty: public authority duty to have regard to conserving biodiversity
- Darwin Initiative: funding schemes and how to apply
- Enforcement laws: advice on protecting the natural environment in England
- How external funding is helping Natural England's work
- Hunting and shooting wildlife
- Licence to sell protected plants and animals (A38 and LR38)
- Manage and protect woodland wildlife
- Marine species & wildlife: protection