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What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
Civil sanctions, enforcement undertakings and prosecutions to protect wildlife and the natural environment.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the Deer pedestrian gate option.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
How the rules are changing to extend eligible Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements from 2025 and what you need to do.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the lined biobed with existing washdown area item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep dip drainage aprons and sumps item.
Register for a licence to survey white-clawed crayfish for research, conservation or development projects.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
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