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The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Register for a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies and find out how to report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
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.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
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.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
A list of designated responsible bodies able to enter into conservation covenant agreements with landowners in England.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
Why you need a marine wildlife licence if you are going to disturb a protected species, how to apply and how to report an incident.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
How to apply for a licence to cover work that will have a low impact on great crested newts and their habitats.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
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 invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
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