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Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
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.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers on or near a proposed development site.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects.
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on special areas of conservation and within their 500m buffer zones.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
When you can bring seal, walrus and sea lion products into Great Britain. How recognised authorities can get approval to export seal products to Great Britain for trade.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
How to notify the Marine Management Organisation that you are carrying out a seismic or geophysical survey.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
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