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Guidance for licensed operators to carry out controlled shooting of badgers in the field.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
Apply for a licence to take and mark badgers to enable vaccination to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) in cattle.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a badger for survey, research or conservation work, find out about references and how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or prevent serious damage.
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.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts for agriculture, forestry and drainage purposes and to prevent damage and find out how to report your actions.
Guidance for licensed operators to carry out cage-trapping and dispatch of badgers.
Licences for activities affecting badgers, a protected species.
Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.
Licences and conditions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
Apply for a licence to interfere with a badger sett near a scheduled monument.
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