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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.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
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.
Add your business to the Animal and Plant Health Agency list of authorised distance plant sellers.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Get a general licence to sell captive bred live wild birds.
How the Animal and Plant Health Agency and other enforcement bodies can use enforcement and sanctioning powers to secure compliance with illegal ivory dealing.
Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
How to check if an ivory item you're buying or hiring has been registered or certified as exempt, and what you need to do as a new owner.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects.
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