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Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
皇冠体育app conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
Get a licence to own dead species protected under annex 4 of the Habitats Directive for scientific or educational purposes.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
Follow the code and guidance if you鈥檙e considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
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