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Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of conducting forestry operations.
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.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in March 1994.
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.
Get a general licence to sell dead wild red squirrels and pine martens.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
Products and chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost if bats are not present.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for research, conservation or development projects.
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.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Guidance on beaver and land management actions that do not need a beaver management licence.
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