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Check if you need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for research, conservation or development projects.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for research, conservation or development projects.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for research, conservation or development projects.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
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.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Get a licence to own dead species protected under annex 4 of the Habitats Directive for scientific or educational purposes.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
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