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Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
How to apply for a licence from Natural England to release beavers into the wild in England.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
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.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
Products and chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost if bats are not present.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
How to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
Use this form to report any action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor licence.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
Get a general licence to trap stoats to prevent serious damage to vulnerable livestock.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
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